Array path from variable in PHP

Question

So I wrote a class that can parse XML documents and create SQL queries from it to update or insert new rows depending on the settings.

Because the script has to work wit

Answer 1

Use something like this:

/**
 * Sets an element of a multidimensional array from an array containing
 * the keys for each dimension.
 * 
 * @param array &$array The array to manipulate
 * @param array $path An array containing keys for each dimension
 * @param mixed $value The value that is assigned to the element
 */
function set_recursive(&$array, $path, $value)
{
  $key = array_shift($path);
  if (empty($path)) {
    $array[$key] = $value;
  } else {
    if (!isset($array[$key]) || !is_array($array[$key])) {
      $array[$key] = array();
    }
    set_recursive($array[$key], $path, $value);
  }
}