How to generate in PHP all combinations of items in multiple arrays

Question

I\'im trying to find all combinations of items in several arrays. The number of arrays is random (this can be 2, 3, 4, 5...). The number of elements in each array is random

Answer 1

I like this solution: https://stackoverflow.com/a/33259643/3163536 but to answer the actual question (which assumes that the number of elements of each combination should be equal to the number of incoming arrays) the function should be modified:

function getCombinations(...$arrays)
    {
        $result = [[]];
        foreach ($arrays as $property => $property_values) {
            $tmp = [];
            foreach ($result as $result_item) {
                foreach ($property_values as $property_value) {
                    $tmp[] = array_merge($result_item, [$property => $property_value]);
                }
            }
            $result = $tmp;
        }
        return $result;
    }

The usage:

$arrayA = array('A1','A2','A3');
$arrayB = array('B1','B2','B3');
$arrayC = array('C1','C2');

print_r(getCombinations($arrayA, $arrayB, $arrayC));

The result:

Array
(
    [0] => Array
        (
            [0] => A1
            [1] => B1
            [2] => C1
        )

    [1] => Array
        (
            [0] => A1
            [1] => B1
            [2] => C2
        )

    [2] => Array
        (
            [0] => A1
            [1] => B2
            [2] => C1
        )

    [3] => Array
        (
            [0] => A1
            [1] => B2
            [2] => C2
        )

    [4] => Array
        (
            [0] => A1
            [1] => B3
            [2] => C1
        )

    [5] => Array
        (
            [0] => A1
            [1] => B3
            [2] => C2
        )

    [6] => Array
        (
            [0] => A2
            [1] => B1
            [2] => C1
        )

    [7] => Array
        (
            [0] => A2
            [1] => B1
            [2] => C2
        )

    [8] => Array
        (
            [0] => A2
            [1] => B2
            [2] => C1
        )

    [9] => Array
        (
            [0] => A2
            [1] => B2
            [2] => C2
        )

    [10] => Array
        (
            [0] => A2
            [1] => B3
            [2] => C1
        )

    [11] => Array
        (
            [0] => A2
            [1] => B3
            [2] => C2
        )

    [12] => Array
        (
            [0] => A3
            [1] => B1
            [2] => C1
        )

    [13] => Array
        (
            [0] => A3
            [1] => B1
            [2] => C2
        )

    [14] => Array
        (
            [0] => A3
            [1] => B2
            [2] => C1
        )

    [15] => Array
        (
            [0] => A3
            [1] => B2
            [2] => C2
        )

    [16] => Array
        (
            [0] => A3
            [1] => B3
            [2] => C1
        )

    [17] => Array
        (
            [0] => A3
            [1] => B3
            [2] => C2
        )

)