John Davidson

Message:

I have a loop that looks like this

$folder = [];



$explode = explode("/", $product->folder);



for($i = 0; $i < count($explode); $++)

{

    $folder[$i] = 'test'

}



dd($folder);

what I'm trying to do here is to create a nested array depending on how many folders there are based on what I get from $explode.

So ideally what I want is this

[

    "folder1" => [

        "folder2" => "test"

    ]

]

and it would carry on being nested, so if my $product->folder looks like this cat1/cat2/cat3 then the array would looks like this

[

    "cat1" => [

        "cat2" => [

            "cat3" => "product"

        ]

    ]

]

---

My Answer:
To achieve this nested array structure dynamically, you can modify your loop to create nested arrays based on the folders in the $explode array. Here's an updated version of your code:

php
$folder = [];
$lastKey = null;

$explode = explode("/", $product->folder);

foreach($explode as $key => $value) {
if($lastKey === null) {
$folder[$value] = 'test';
} else {
$folder[$lastKey] = [$value => 'test'];
}
$lastKey = $value;
}

dd($folder);


This code will create a nested array based on the folders in the $product->folder string. It will check if the current folder has a parent folder and create the nested structure accordingly.