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BillV

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PHP Help

« on: September 04, 2009, 10:05:48 PM »

Hey guys, I have a small piece of code I'm trying to make dynamic and I'm a little stumped - it's been driving me nuts for a little while now.. was wondering if anyone might have some insight...

Code:

foreach($w1 as $v1){
foreach($w2 as $v2){
foreach($w3 as $v3){
$all_w[]=$v1.$v2.$v3;
}
}
}

I'm trying to figure out how I can make that dynamic, so I don't have to have 50 nested foreach loops... I think I can get the first part, but building the array at the end seems to be the tough part. Any suggestions?

Thanks!


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Re: PHP Help

« Reply #1 on: September 04, 2009, 11:09:20 PM »

Code:

<?php
$all = array();
function merge($arraynum){
////// whatever you are merging, typically this won't be here either, but would be defined elsewhere and passed to the function
static $myArrayName1 = array ('a','b');
static $myArrayName2 = array ('c','d','e');
static $myArrayName3 = array ('f','g','h','i');
//////
foreach (${'myArrayName'.$arraynum} as $arrayitem){
$GLOBALS['all'][] = $arrayitem;
}
$arraynum++;
if(${'myArrayName'.$arraynum}!=""){
merge($arraynum);
}
else{
return $GLOBALS['all'];
}
}

merge(1);

foreach ($all as $arrayitem){
echo $arrayitem;
}
?>


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Re: PHP Help

« Reply #2 on: September 04, 2009, 11:16:28 PM »

Can you describe in words what you were trying to accomplish?


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BillV

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Re: PHP Help

« Reply #3 on: September 05, 2009, 07:51:44 AM »

Thanks payup! That looks like it should do the trick.. will have to try it out

Jason:
I have an unknown amount of arrays ($w) that contain an unknown amount of elements ($v) each. The basics of it, is that I needed to find every possible combination always starting with an item from the first, then the second, etc.

So if...

$w = a, b, c
$w2 = d, e, f

I need to find:

ad, ae, af, bd, be, bf, cd, ce, cf

And this could of course be something more intense:

$w = a, b, c, d
$w2 = h, j, l, 1, 4, 6, $
$w3 = 5, 2
etc.

The code I was using above worked really well and did the trick, but only up to the amount of 'foreach' that I had.


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Re: PHP Help

« Reply #4 on: September 05, 2009, 12:15:03 PM »

Bill,

Can you use a two dimensional array here, instead of having a bunch of one dimensional arrays?


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BillV

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Re: PHP Help

« Reply #5 on: September 05, 2009, 03:30:21 PM »

I probably could, but I think I've come to the realization that it doesn't matter at this point. I have to cap it at 5 or 6 deep. Anything past that causes PHP to error out complaining about memory:

Quote

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 25165824 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 2097152 bytes)


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Re: PHP Help

« Reply #6 on: September 05, 2009, 07:06:56 PM »

Quote from: BillV on September 05, 2009, 03:30:21 PM

I probably could, but I think I've come to the realization that it doesn't matter at this point. I have to cap it at 5 or 6 deep. Anything past that causes PHP to error out complaining about memory:

Quote

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 25165824 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 2097152 bytes)

I think you can increase the alocated memory size in PHP.ini. Probably best to find a better solution tho.


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Re: PHP Help

« Reply #7 on: September 06, 2009, 12:59:02 PM »

If you can't find another solution the entry for changing the allocated memory would be at memory_limit if I remember correctly and if you haven't found it yet.


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BillV

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Re: PHP Help

« Reply #8 on: September 07, 2009, 07:51:03 AM »

Yeah, I'm aware of it.. I don't have the ability to change it in the hosting environment.


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Re: PHP Help

« Reply #9 on: September 07, 2009, 09:47:43 AM »

I find that it's usually better to optimize your code than to increase memory capacity.

Bill, can you parse the arrays in steps? If you don't find what you are looking for in 5 arrays, mark them as such and start another loop for the next 5, and so on?

Would they let you stick a small CGI in the hosting environment. Maybe you can write this procedure in C, Perl, etc. and offload it from PHP. Obviously this could completely run away with RAM.


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