One important thing to remember is that in iterator can be infinite. Not all iterators necessarily end. If iterator_to_array is used on such an iterator, it will exhaust the available memory, and throw a fatal error.
For example, consider the following code:
<?php
function fibonacci(): Generator
{
yield $a = 1;
yield $b = 2;
start:
yield $c = $a + $b;
$a = $b;
$b = $c;
goto start;
}
$fibonacciSequence = fibonacci();
iterator_to_array($fibonacciSequence);
?>
Since <?php fibonacci(); ?> generates an infinite fibonacci sequence, which is valid, since it is actually an infinite sequence, then attempting to convert it to an array will fail.
iterator_to_array
(PHP 5 >= 5.1.0, PHP 7, PHP 8)
iterator_to_array — Copy the iterator into an array
Description
Copy the elements of an iterator into an array.
Parameters
-
iterator -
The iterator being copied.
-
preserve_keys -
Whether to use the iterator element keys as index.
If a key is an array or object, a warning will be generated.
nullkeys will be converted to an empty string, float keys will be truncated to their int counterpart, resource keys will generate a warning and be converted to their resource ID, and bool keys will be converted to integers.Note:
If this parameter is not set or set to
true, duplicate keys will be overwritten. The last value with a given key will be in the returned array. Set this parameter tofalseto get all the values in any case.
Return Values
An array containing the elements of the iterator.
Changelog
| Version | Description |
|---|---|
| 8.2.0 |
The type of iterator has been widened from
Traversable to
Traversable|array.
|
Examples
Example #1 iterator_to_array() example
<?php
$iterator = new ArrayIterator(array('recipe'=>'pancakes', 'egg', 'milk', 'flour'));
var_dump(iterator_to_array($iterator, true));
var_dump(iterator_to_array($iterator, false));
?>The above example will output:
array(4) {
["recipe"]=>
string(8) "pancakes"
[0]=>
string(3) "egg"
[1]=>
string(4) "milk"
[2]=>
string(5) "flour"
}
array(4) {
[0]=>
string(8) "pancakes"
[1]=>
string(3) "egg"
[2]=>
string(4) "milk"
[3]=>
string(5) "flour"
}
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User Contributed Notes 6 notes
wizzard351 at yahoo dot com ¶
2 years ago
jerome at yazo dot net ¶
15 years ago
Using the boolean param :
<?php
$first = new ArrayIterator( array('k1' => 'a' , 'k2' => 'b', 'k3' => 'c', 'k4' => 'd') );
$second = new ArrayIterator( array( 'k1' => 'X', 'k2' => 'Y', 'Z' ) );
$combinedIterator= new AppendIterator();
$combinedIterator->append( $first );
$combinedIterator->append( $second );
var_dump( iterator_to_array($combinedIterator, false) );
?>
will output :
array(7) (
[0]=>
string(1) "a"
[1]=>
string(1) "b"
[2]=>
string(1) "c"
[3]=>
string(1) "d"
[4]=>
string(1) "X"
[5]=>
string(1) "Y"
[6]=>
string(1) "Z"
)
<?php
var_dump( iterator_to_array($combinedIterator, true) );
?>
will output (since keys would merge) :
array(5) (
["k1"]=>
string(1) "X"
["k2"]=>
string(1) "Y"
["k3"]=>
string(1) "c"
["k4"]=>
string(1) "d"
[0]=>
string(1) "Z"
)
joksnet at gmail dot com ¶
10 years ago
To generate an deep array from nested iterators:
<?php
function iterator_to_array_deep(\Traversable $iterator, $use_keys = true) {
$array = array();
foreach ($iterator as $key => $value) {
if ($value instanceof \Iterator) {
$value = iterator_to_array_deep($value, $use_keys);
}
if ($use_keys) {
$array[$key] = $value;
} else {
$array[] = $value;
}
}
return $array;
}
?>
I use it to test an iterator: https://gist.github.com/jm42/cb328106f393eeb28751
Harry Willis ¶
9 years ago
When using iterator_to_array() on an SplObjectStorage object, it's advisable to set $use_keys to false.
The resulting array is identical, since the iterator keys produced by SplObjectStorage::key() are always integers from 0 to (COUNT-1). Passing $use_keys=false cuts out the unnecessary calls to SplObjectStorage::key(), giving a slight performance advantage.
chad 0x40 herballure 0x2e com ¶
16 years ago
The use_keys parameter was added in one of the 5.2.x releases; it defaults to TRUE. This matches the behavior in PHP 5.1.6, which lacks this parameter.
enelar at develop-project dot ru ¶
7 years ago
Generator approach
function scandir_deep($dir)
{
foreach (scandir($dir) as $key => $value)
if (in_array($value, [".",".."]))
continue;
else if (is_dir($dir . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . $value))
yield $value => scandir_deep($dir . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . $value);
else
yield $value;
}
