Finding cartesian product with PHP associative arrays

Question

Say that I have an array like the following:

Array
(
    [arm] => Array
        (
            [0] => A
            [1] => B
            [2] => C
         


        

Answer 1

Another solution:

function getAllVariations($input) {
    $result = array();
    $cnt = array_product(array_map('count', $input));
    $step = 1;
    foreach ($input as $key=>$array) {
        for ($i=0; $i<$cnt; $i++) {
            foreach ($array as $value) {
                for ($k=0; $k<$step; $k++) {
                    $result[$i+$k][$key] = $value;
                }
                $i += $step;
            }
            $i--;
        }
        $step = $step * count($array);
    }
    return $result;
}

Usage:

$input = array(
    'arm' => array('A', 'B', 'C'),
    'gender' => array('Female', 'Male'),
    'location' => array('Vancouver', 'Calgary'),
    'name' => array('Rio', 'Mark')
);

echo "
";
var_dump(getAllVariations($input));