array_reduce

(PHP 4 >= 4.0.5, PHP 5, PHP 7)

array_reduce — 用回调函数迭代地将数组简化为单一的值

说明

mixed array_reduce ( array $array , callable $callback [, mixed $initial = NULL ] )

array_reduce() 将回调函数 callback 迭代地作用到 array 数组中的每一个单元中，从而将数组简化为单一的值。

参数

array

输入的 array。

callback
mixed callback ( mixed $carry , mixed $item )
carry

携带上次迭代里的值； 如果本次迭代是第一次，那么这个值是 initial。

item

携带了本次迭代的值。

initial

如果指定了可选参数 initial，该参数将在处理开始前使用，或者当处理结束，数组为空时的最后一个结果。

返回值

返回结果值。

initial 参数，array_reduce() 返回 NULL。

更新日志

版本 说明
5.3.0 修改 initial 类型，允许传入 mixed，之前只能是 integer。

范例

Example #1 array_reduce() 例子

<?php
function sum($carry, $item)
{
    $carry += $item;
    return $carry;
}

function product($carry, $item)
{
    $carry *= $item;
    return $carry;
}

$a = array(1, 2, 3, 4, 5);
$x = array();

var_dump(array_reduce($a, "sum")); // int(15)
var_dump(array_reduce($a, "product", 10)); // int(1200), because: 10*1*2*3*4*5
var_dump(array_reduce($x, "sum", "No data to reduce")); // string(17) "No data to reduce"
?>

参见

User Contributed Notes

galley dot meng at gmail dot com 15-Mar-2017 02:48
If your array has string keys, you can reduce a two-dimensional array into one-dimensional using array_reduce, array_merge and array_values. (PHP>=5.3.0)

<?php

$two_dimensional = array();

$two_dimensional['foo'] = array('a' => 1, 'b' => 2, 'c' => 3);
$two_dimensional['bar'] = array('a' => 4, 'b' => 5, 'c' =>6);

$one_dimensional = array_reduce($two_dimensional, 'array_merge', array());

$one_dimensional = array_reduce($two_dimensional, function ($one_dimensional, $value) {
    return array_merge($one_dimensional, array_values($value));
}, array());

# becomes array(1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
directrix1 at gmail dot com 04-Nov-2015 01:39
So, if you were wondering how to use this where key and value are passed in to the function. I've had success with the following (this example generates formatted html attributes from an associative array of attribute => value pairs):

<?php

    // Attribute List
    $attribs = [
        'name' => 'first_name',
        'value' => 'Edward'
    ];

    // Attribute string formatted for use inside HTML element
    $formatted_attribs = array_reduce(
        array_keys($attribs),                       // We pass in the array_keys instead of the array here
        function ($carry, $key) use ($attribs) {    // ... then we 'use' the actual array here
            return $carry . ' ' . $key . '="' . htmlspecialchars( $attribs[$key] ) . '"';
        },
        ''
    );

echo $formatted_attribs;

?>

This will output:
 name="first_name" value="Edward"
cwu at nolo dot com 19-Sep-2015 04:34
The single value returned by array_reduce() can be an array -- as illustrated in the following example:
<?php
# calculate the average of an array
function calculate_sum_and_count($sum_and_count, $item)
{
  list($sum, $count) = $sum_and_count;
  $sum += $item;
  $count += 1;
  return [$sum, $count];
}

$a = array(1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10);
$initial_sum_and_count = [0, 0];
list($sum, $count) = array_reduce($a, "calculate_sum_and_count", $initial_sum_and_count);
echo $sum / $count;
?>
aiadfaris at yahoo dot de 30-May-2014 05:16
notice to function array_reduce()
I suppose the function rsum in the example 1 so it is not correct,
but
$ v + = $ w;
will output 15
aiadfaris at yahoo dot de 30-May-2014 05:14
notice to function array_reduce()
I suppose the function rsum in the example 1 so it is not correct,
but
$ v + = $ w;
will output 15
magnesium dot oxide dot play+php at gmail dot com 11-Apr-2014 02:27
You can reduce a two-dimensional array into one-dimensional using array_reduce and array_merge. (PHP>=5.3.0)

<?php

$two_dimensional = array();
$two_dimensional['foo'] = array(1, 2, 3);
$two_dimensional['bar'] = array(4, 5, 6);

$one_dimensional = array_reduce($two_dimensional, 'array_merge', array());
# becomes array(1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
Altreus 26-Feb-2014 11:30
You can effectively ignore the fact $result is passed into the callback by reference. Only the return value of the callback is accounted for.

<?php

$arr = [1,2,3,4];

var_dump(array_reduce(
    $arr,
    function(&$res, $a) { $res += $a; },
    0
));

# NULL

?>

<?php

$arr = [1,2,3,4];

var_dump(array_reduce(
    $arr,
    function($res, $a) { return $res + $a;  },
    0
));

# int(10)
?>

Be warned, though, that you *can* accidentally change $res if it's not a simple scalar value, so despite the examples I'd recommend not writing to it at all.
kon 03-Dec-2012 10:12
Walking down related object's properties using array_reduce:

<?php
  $a=new stdClass;
  $a->b=new stdClass;
  $a->b->c="Hello World!\n";

  $reductionPath=array("b","c");

  print_r(
    array_reduce(
      $reductionPath,
      function($result, $item){
        return $result->$item;
      },
      $a
    )
  );
?>
ruslan dot zavackiy at gmail dot com 06-Jul-2012 05:29
If you want something elegant in your code, when dealing with reducing array, just unshift first element, and use it as initial, because if you do not do so, you will + first element with first element:

<?php
$arr = array(
    array('min' => 1.5456, 'max' => 2.28548, 'volume' => 23.152),
    array('min' => 1.5457, 'max' => 2.28549, 'volume' => 23.152),
    array('min' => 1.5458, 'max' => 2.28550, 'volume' => 23.152),
    array('min' => 1.5459, 'max' => 2.28551, 'volume' => 23.152),
    array('min' => 1.5460, 'max' => 2.28552, 'volume' => 23.152),
);

$initial = array_shift($arr);

$t = array_reduce($arr, function($result, $item) {
    $result['min'] = min($result['min'], $item['min']);
    $result['max'] = max($result['max'], $item['max']);
    $result['volume'] += $item['volume'];

    return $result;
}, $initial);
?>
php at keith tyler dot com 19-Apr-2010 12:30
If you do not provide $initial, the first value used in the iteration is NULL. This is not a problem for callback functions that treat NULL as an identity (e.g. addition), but is a problem for cases when NULL is not identity (such as boolean context).

Compare:

<?php
function andFunc($a, $b) {
  return $a && $b;
}
$foo = array(true, true, true);
var_dump(array_reduce($foo, "andFunc"));
?>

returns false! One would expect that it would return true because `true && true && true == true`!

Adding diagnostic output to andFunc() shows that the first call to andFunc is with the arguments (NULL, true). This resolves to false (as `(bool) null == false`) and thereby corrupts the whole reduction.

So in this case I have to set `$initial = true` so that the first call to andFunc() will be (true, true). Now, if I were doing, say, orFunc(), I would have to set `$initial = false`. Beware.

Note that the "rmul" case in the example sneakily hides this defect! They use an $initial of 10 to get `10*1*2*3*4*5 = 12000`. So you would assume that without an initial, you would get `1200/10 = 120 = 1*2*3*4*5`. Nope! You get big fat zero, because `int(null)==0`, and `0*1*2*3*4*5 = 0`!

I don't honestly see why array_reduce starts with a null argument. The first call to the callback should be with arguments ($initial[0],$initial[1]) [or whatever the first two array entries are], not (null,$initial[0]). That's what one would expect from the description.

Incidentally this also means that under the current implementation you will incur `count($input)` number of calls to the callback, not `count($input) - 1` as you might expect.
Hayley Watson 23-Oct-2007 11:49
To make it clearer about what the two parameters of the callback are for, and what "reduce to a single value" actually means (using associative and commutative operators as examples may obscure this).

The first parameter to the callback is an accumulator where the result-in-progress is effectively assembled. If you supply an $initial value the accumulator starts out with that value, otherwise it starts out null.
The second parameter is where each value of the array is passed during each step of the reduction.
The return value of the callback becomes the new value of the accumulator. When the array is exhausted, array_reduce() returns accumulated value.

If you carried out the reduction by hand, you'd get something like the following lines, every one of which therefore producing the same result:
<?php
array_reduce(array(1,2,3,4), 'f',         99             );
array_reduce(array(2,3,4),   'f',       f(99,1)          );
array_reduce(array(3,4),     'f',     f(f(99,1),2)       );
array_reduce(array(4),       'f',   f(f(f(99,1),2),3)    );
array_reduce(array(),        'f', f(f(f(f(99,1),2),3),4) );
f(f(f(f(99,1),2),3),4)
?>

If you made function f($v,$w){return "f($v,$w)";} the last line would be the literal result.

A PHP implementation might therefore look something like this (less details like error checking and so on):
<?php
function array_reduce($array, $callback, $initial=null)
{
    $acc = $initial;
    foreach($array as $a)
        $acc = $callback($acc, $a);
    return $acc;
}
?>
yuki [dot] kodama [at] gmail [dot] com 31-Jan-2007 05:56
This code will reduce array deeply.

<?php
function print_s($s) {
    return is_null($s) ? "NULL" : (is_array($s) ? "Array" : ($s ? "TRUE" : "FALSE"));
}
function r_and_dp($a, $b) {
    echo "phase1:" . print_s($a) . "," . print_s($b) . "<br>\n";
    if(is_array($a)) {
        $a = array_reduce($a, "r_and_dp");
    }
    if(is_array($b)) {
        $b = array_reduce($b, "r_and_dp");
    }
    echo "phase2:" . print_s($a) . "," . print_s($b) . "<br>\n";
    $a = is_null($a) ? TRUE : $a;
    $b = is_null($b) ? TRUE : $b;
    echo "phase3:" . print_s($a) . "," . print_s($b) . "<br>\n";
    return $a && $b;
}
$bools = array(TRUE, array(FALSE, TRUE), TRUE);
echo print_s(array_reduce($bools, "r_and_dp")) . "<br>\n";

// result: FALSE
?>

When using boolean, you have to carefully set an "initial" argument.

<?php
function r_or_dp($a, $b) {
    if(is_array($a)) {
        $a = array_reduce($a, "r_or_dp");
    }
    if(is_array($b)) {
        $b = array_reduce($b, "r_or_dp");
    }
    return (is_null($a) ? FALSE : $a) || (is_null($b) ? FALSE : $b);
}
?>
bdechka at yahoo dot ca 10-Jan-2007 09:57
The above code works better this way.

<?php
function reduceToTable($html, $p) {
   $html .= "<TR><TD><a href=\"$p.html\">$p</a></td></tr>\n";
   return $html;
}

$list = Array("page1", "page2", "page3");

$tab = array_reduce($list, "reduceToTable");
echo "<table>".$tab . "</table>\n";
?>
Seanj.jcink.com 05-Jan-2006 03:23
The code posted below by bishop to count the characters of an array is simply... erm... well useless to me...

$array=Array("abc","de","f");
strlen(implode("",$array)); //6

works; and is much smaller. Probably much faster too.