John Davidson

Message:

I have a sample array, in which I would like to find the secondary ones and recursively check the secondary one until all secondary profiles gets unset from PHP array.
Here is the example array.

$testarray= array(

    array(

        array(

            'id' => 'ccdbh-743748',

            'name' => 'test',

            'email' => '[email protected]',

            'newsletter' => 'abc,def,ghi',

            'created_at' => '1546753453',

            'profile_type' => 'primary'

        ),

        array(

            'id' => 'uisvuiacsiodciosd',

            'name' => 'test',

            'email' => '[email protected]',

            'newsletter' => 'def',

            'created_at' => '1546753453',

            'profile_type' => 'secondary'

        ),

        array(

            'id' => 'sdcisodjcosjdocij',

            'name' => 'test',

            'email' => '[email protected]',

            'newsletter' => 'ghi',

            'created_at' => '1546753453',

            'profile_type' => 'secondary'

        )

    ),

    array(

        array(

            'id' => 'sdcisodjcosjdocij',

            'name' => 'test',

            'email' => '[email protected]',

            'newsletter' => 'abc',

            'created_at' => '1546753453',

            'profile_type' => 'secondary'

        ),

        array(

            'id' => 'ccdbh-743748',

            'name' => 'test',

            'email' => '[email protected]',

            'newsletter' => 'abc,def',

            'created_at' => '1546753453',

            'profile_type' => 'primary'

        )

    ),

    array(

        array(

            'id' => 'sdcisodjcosjdocij',

            'name' => 'test',

            'email' => '[email protected]',

            'newsletter' => 'abc',

            'created_at' => '1546753453',

            'profile_type' => 'secondary'

        ),

        array(

            'id' => 'sdcisodjcoscisudhiu',

            'name' => 'test',

            'email' => '[email protected]',

            'newsletter' => 'abc,def',

            'created_at' => '1515217453',

            'profile_type' => 'primary'

        )

    )

);

What I have tried so far.

function duplicate_profiles_merger ($profiles_array) {

    $innderdata = array();

    foreach ($profiles_array as $key => $val) {

        if (is_array($val) && in_array('secondary', $val)) {

            unset($val[$key]);

            // echo 'recursion';

            duplicate_profiles_merger($profiles_array);

        } else {

            // $innderdata = $val;

//POST Request API code goes here. Like curl request.

//data '{"primary":{"email":"[email protected]"}, "secondary":{"email":"[email protected]"}}'

            echo 'done';

        }

        

        return $innderdata = $val;

        

    }

}

But this gets me in an infinite state.
Below is the scenario that I want to achieve.

Here is the data that I need to pass through the API post request.
data '{"primary":{"email":"[email protected]"}, "secondary":{"email":"[email protected]"}}'

Now I need the primary email and the secondary email for profile merge.
But there is more than one secondary profile that exists in the array, so for that, I need some kind of recursive functionality.

Thanks

---

My Answer:
Here is a modified version of your code that should achieve the desired result:

php
function duplicate_profiles_merger($profiles_array) {
$primary_data = array();
$secondary_data = array();

foreach ($profiles_array as $profile) {
foreach ($profile as $data) {
if ($data['profile_type'] == 'primary') {
$primary_data = $data;
} elseif ($data['profile_type'] == 'secondary') {
$secondary_data[] = $data;
}
}
}

// POST Request API code goes here. Like curl request.
// data '{\"primary\":{\"email\":\"[email protected]\"}, \"secondary\":'.json_encode($secondary_data).'}'

// Recursively merge secondary profiles
if (!empty($secondary_data)) {
duplicate_profiles_merger([$secondary_data]);
}

echo 'done';
}

duplicate_profiles_merger($testarray);


This code will extract the primary and secondary profiles from the array and make a POST request with the primary email and an array of secondary emails. It will then recursively call the function with the secondary profiles until all secondary profiles are processed.