(PHP 5 >= 5.5.0, PHP 7, PHP 8)
array_column — Return the values from a single column in the input array
array_column() returns the values from a single column of
the array, identified by the
column_key. Optionally, an
index_key may be provided to index the values in the
returned array by the values from the index_key
column of the input array.
arrayA multi-dimensional array or an array of objects from which to pull a column of values from. If an array of objects is provided, then public properties can be directly pulled. In order for protected or private properties to be pulled, the class must implement both the __get() and __isset() magic methods.
column_key
The column of values to return. This value may be an integer key of the
column you wish to retrieve, or it may be a string key name for an
associative array or property name. It may also be null to return
complete arrays or objects (this is useful together with
index_key to reindex the array).
index_keyThe column to use as the index/keys for the returned array. This value may be the integer key of the column, or it may be the string key name. The value is cast as usual for array keys (however, prior to PHP 8.0.0, objects supporting conversion to string were also allowed).
Returns an array of values representing a single column from the input array.
| Version | Description |
|---|---|
| 8.0.0 |
Objects in columns indicated by index_key parameter
will no longer be cast to string and will now throw a TypeError instead.
|
Example #1 Get the column of first names from a recordset
<?php
// Array representing a possible record set returned from a database
$records = [
[
'id' => 2135,
'first_name' => 'John',
'last_name' => 'Doe',
],
[
'id' => 3245,
'first_name' => 'Sally',
'last_name' => 'Smith',
],
[
'id' => 5342,
'first_name' => 'Jane',
'last_name' => 'Jones',
],
[
'id' => 5623,
'first_name' => 'Peter',
'last_name' => 'Doe',
]
];
$first_names = array_column($records, 'first_name');
print_r($first_names);
?>The above example will output:
Array
(
[0] => John
[1] => Sally
[2] => Jane
[3] => Peter
)
Example #2 Get the column of last names from a recordset, indexed by the "id" column
<?php
// Using the $records array from Example #1
$records = [
[
'id' => 2135,
'first_name' => 'John',
'last_name' => 'Doe',
],
[
'id' => 3245,
'first_name' => 'Sally',
'last_name' => 'Smith',
],
[
'id' => 5342,
'first_name' => 'Jane',
'last_name' => 'Jones',
],
[
'id' => 5623,
'first_name' => 'Peter',
'last_name' => 'Doe',
]
];
$last_names = array_column($records, 'last_name', 'id');
print_r($last_names);
?>The above example will output:
Array
(
[2135] => Doe
[3245] => Smith
[5342] => Jones
[5623] => Doe
)
Example #3 Get the column of usernames from the public "username" property of an object
<?php
class User
{
public $username;
public function __construct(string $username)
{
$this->username = $username;
}
}
$users = [
new User('user 1'),
new User('user 2'),
new User('user 3'),
];
print_r(array_column($users, 'username'));
?>The above example will output:
Array
(
[0] => user 1
[1] => user 2
[2] => user 3
)
Example #4 Get the column of names from the private "name" property of an object using the magic methods __isset() and __get()
<?php
class Person
{
private $name;
public function __construct(string $name)
{
$this->name = $name;
}
public function __get($prop)
{
return $this->$prop;
}
public function __isset($prop) : bool
{
return isset($this->$prop);
}
}
$people = [
new Person('Fred'),
new Person('Jane'),
new Person('John'),
];
print_r(array_column($people, 'name'));
?>The above example will output:
Array
(
[0] => Fred
[1] => Jane
[2] => John
)
if array_column does not exist the below solution will work.if(!function_exists("array_column")){ function array_column($array,$column_name) { return array_map(function($element) use($column_name){return $element[$column_name];}, $array); }}Index_key is safely applicable only in cases when corresponding values of this index are unique through over the array. Otherwise only the latest element of the array with the same index_key value will be picked up.<?php$records = array( array( 'id' => 2135, 'first_name' => 'John', 'last_name' => 'Doe', 'company_id' => 1, ), array( 'id' => 3245, 'first_name' => 'Sally', 'last_name' => 'Smith', 'company_id' => 1, ), array( 'id' => 5342, 'first_name' => 'Jane', 'last_name' => 'Jones', 'company_id' => 1, ), array( 'id' => 5623, 'first_name' => 'Peter', 'last_name' => 'Doe', 'company_id' => 2, )); $first_names = array_column($records, 'first_name', 'company_id');print_r($first_names);?>The above example will output:<?phpArray( [1] => Jane [2] => Peter)?>To group values by the same `index_key` in arrays one can use simple replacement for the `array_column` like below example function:<?phpfunction arrayed_column(array $array, int|string $column_key, int|string $index_key) { $output = []; foreach ($array as $item) { $output[$item['index_key']][] = $item['column_key']; } return $output;}$first_names = arrayed_column($records, 'first_name', 'company_id');print_r($first_names);?>The output:<?phpArray( [1] => Array ( [0] => John [1] => Sally [2] => Jane ) [2] => Array ( [0] =>Peter ))?>You can also use array_map fucntion if you haven't array_column().
example:
$a = array(
array(
'id' => 2135,
'first_name' => 'John',
'last_name' => 'Doe',
),
array(
'id' => 3245,
'first_name' => 'Sally',
'last_name' => 'Smith',
)
);
array_column($a, 'last_name');
becomes
array_map(function($element){return $element['last_name'];}, $a);This function does not preserve the original keys of the array (when not providing an index_key).You can work around that like so:<?php// instead ofarray_column($array, 'column');// to preserve keysarray_combine(array_keys($array), array_column($array, 'column'));?>Please note that if you use array_column to reset the index, when the index value is null, there will be different results in different PHP versions, examples<?php $array = [ [ 'name' =>'Bob', 'house' =>'big', ], [ 'name' =>'Alice', 'house' =>'small', ], [ 'name' =>'Jack', 'house' => null, ],];var_dump(array_column($array,null,'house'));On 5.6.30, 7.0.0, 7.2.0 (not limited to) get the following resultsarray(3) { ["big"]=> array(2) { ["name"]=> string(3) "Bob" ["house"]=> string(3) "big" } ["small"]=> array(2) { ["name"]=> string(5) "Alice" ["house"]=> string(5) "small" } [0]=> array(2) { ["name"]=> string(4) "Jack" ["house"]=> NULL }}The new index, null will be converted to int, and can be incremented according to the previous index, that is, if Alice "house" is also null, then Alice's new index is "0", Jack's new index is "1"On 7.1.21, 7.2.18, 7.4.8 (not limited to) will get the following resultsarray(3) { ["Big"]=> array(2) { ["name"]=> string(3) "Bob" ["house"]=> string(3) "Big" } ["small"]=> array(2) { ["name"]=> string(5) "Alice" ["house"]=> string(5) "small" } [""]=> array(2) { ["name"]=> string(4) "Jack" ["house"]=> NULL }}The new index null will be converted to an empty stringThe counterpart of array_column(), namely create an array from columns, can be done with array_map() :<?php// Columns$lastnames = ['Skywalker', 'Organa', 'Kenobi'];$firstnames = ['Luke', 'Leia', 'Obiwan'];// Columns to array$characters = array_map( fn ($l, $f) => ['lastname' => $l, 'firstname' => $f], $lastnames, $firstnames);print_r($characters);/* [ 0 => ['lastname' => 'Skywalker', 'firstname' => 'Luke'] 1 => ['lastname' => 'Organa', 'firstname' => 'Leia'] 2 => ['lastname' => 'Kenobi', 'firstname' => 'Obiwan'] ]*/Some remarks not included in the official documentation.1) array_column does not support 1D arrays, in which case an empty array is returned.2) The $column_key is zero-based.3) If $column_key extends the valid index range an empty array is returned.Because the function was not available in my version of PHP, I wrote my own version and extended it a little based on my needs.When you give an $indexkey value of -1 it preserves the associated array key values.EXAMPLE:$sample = array( 'test1' => array( 'val1' = 10, 'val2' = 100 ), 'test2' => array( 'val1' = 20, 'val2' = 200 ), 'test3' => array( 'val1' = 30, 'val2' = 300 ));print_r(array_column_ext($sample,'val1'));OUTPUT:Array( [0] => 10 [1] => 20 [2] => 30)print_r(array_column_ext($sample,'val1',-1));OUTPUT:Array( ['test1'] => 10 ['test2'] => 20 ['test3'] => 30)print_r(array_column_ext($sample,'val1','val2'));OUTPUT:Array( [100] => 10 [200] => 20 [300] => 30)<?phpfunction array_column_ext($array, $columnkey, $indexkey = null) { $result = array(); foreach ($array as $subarray => $value) { if (array_key_exists($columnkey,$value)) { $val = $array[$subarray][$columnkey]; } else if ($columnkey === null) { $val = $value; } else { continue; } if ($indexkey === null) { $result[] = $val; } elseif ($indexkey == -1 || array_key_exists($indexkey,$value)) { $result[($indexkey == -1)?$subarray:$array[$subarray][$indexkey]] = $val; } } return $result;}?>array_column implementation that works on multidimensional arrays (not just 2-dimensional):<?phpfunction array_column_recursive(array $haystack, $needle) { $found = []; array_walk_recursive($haystack, function($value, $key) use (&$found, $needle) { if ($key == $needle) $found[] = $value; }); return $found;}Taken from https://github.com/NinoSkopac/array_column_recursiveArray multiple columns:<?phpfunction array_columns() { $args = func_get_args(); $array = array_shift($args); if (!$args) { return $array; } $keys = array_flip($args); return array_map(function($element) use($keys) { return array_intersect_key($element, $keys); }, $array);}?>EXAMPLE:<?php$products = [ [ 'id' => 2, 'name' => 'Phone', 'price' => 210.3 ], [ 'id' => 3, 'name' => 'Laptop', 'price' => 430.12 ]];print_r(array_columns($products, 'name', 'price'));?>Output:Array( [0] => Array ( [name] => Phone [price] => 210.3 ) [1] => Array ( [name] => Laptop [price] => 430.12 ))<?php# for PHP < 5.5 # AND it works with arrayObject AND array of objectsif (!function_exists('array_column')) { function array_column($array, $columnKey, $indexKey = null) { $result = array(); foreach ($array as $subArray) { if (is_null($indexKey) && array_key_exists($columnKey, $subArray)) { $result[] = is_object($subArray)?$subArray->$columnKey: $subArray[$columnKey]; } elseif (array_key_exists($indexKey, $subArray)) { if (is_null($columnKey)) { $index = is_object($subArray)?$subArray->$indexKey: $subArray[$indexKey]; $result[$index] = $subArray; } elseif (array_key_exists($columnKey, $subArray)) { $index = is_object($subArray)?$subArray->$indexKey: $subArray[$indexKey]; $result[$index] = is_object($subArray)?$subArray->$columnKey: $subArray[$columnKey]; } } } return $result; }}?>Here's a neat little snippet for filtering a set of records based on a the value of a column:<?phpfunction dictionaryFilterList(array $source, array $data, string $column) : array{ $new = array_column($data, $column); $keep = array_diff($new, $source); return array_intersect_key($data, $keep); }// Usage:$users = [ ['first_name' => 'Jed', 'last_name' => 'Lopez'], ['first_name' => 'Carlos', 'last_name' => 'Granados'], ['first_name' => 'Dirty', 'last_name' => 'Diana'], ['first_name' => 'John', 'last_name' => 'Williams'], ['first_name' => 'Betty', 'last_name' => 'Boop'], ['first_name' => 'Dan', 'last_name' => 'Daniels'], ['first_name' => 'Britt', 'last_name' => 'Anderson'], ['first_name' => 'Will', 'last_name' => 'Smith'], ['first_name' => 'Magic', 'last_name' => 'Johnson'],];var_dump(dictionaryFilterList(['Dirty', 'Dan'], $users, 'first_name'));// Outputs:[ ['first_name' => 'Jed', 'last_name' => 'Lopez'], ['first_name' => 'Carlos', 'last_name' => 'Granados'], ['first_name' => 'John', 'last_name' => 'Williams'], ['first_name' => 'Betty', 'last_name' => 'Boop'], ['first_name' => 'Britt', 'last_name' => 'Anderson'], ['first_name' => 'Will', 'last_name' => 'Smith'], ['first_name' => 'Magic', 'last_name' => 'Johnson']]?>I added a little more functionality to the more popular answers here to support the $index_key parameter for PHP < 5.5<?php// for php < 5.5if (!function_exists('array_column')) { function array_column($input, $column_key, $index_key = null) { $arr = array_map(function($d) use ($column_key, $index_key) { if (!isset($d[$column_key])) { return null; } if ($index_key !== null) { return array($d[$index_key] => $d[$column_key]); } return $d[$column_key]; }, $input); if ($index_key !== null) { $tmp = array(); foreach ($arr as $ar) { $tmp[key($ar)] = current($ar); } $arr = $tmp; } return $arr; }}?>The following function may be useful to create columns from all values of indexed arrays:
<?php
function array_column_all(array $arrays): array
{
$output = [];
$columnCount = count($arrays[0]);
for ($i = 0; $i < $columnCount; $i++)
{
$output [] = array_column($arrays, $i);
}
return $output;
}
?>
Use:
-----
<?php
array_column_all(
[
['A1', 'A2', 'A3'],
['B1', 'B2', 'B3'],
['C1', 'C2', 'C3'],
]
);
?>
This will output:
-------------------
Array
(
[0] => Array
(
[0] => A1
[1] => B1
[2] => C1
)
[1] => Array
(
[0] => A2
[1] => B2
[2] => C2
)
[2] => Array
(
[0] => A3
[1] => B3
[2] => C3
)
)Note that this function will return the last entry when possible keys are duplicated.<?php$array = array( array( '1-1', 'one', 'one', ), array( '1-2', 'two', 'one', ),);var_dump(array_column($array, $value = 0, $index = 1));var_dump(array_column($array, $value = 0, $index = 2));// returns:/*array (size=2) 'one' => string '1-1' (length=3) 'two' => string '1-2' (length=3)array (size=1) 'one' => string '1-2' (length=3)*/?>//php < 5.5if(function_exists('array_column')){ function array_column($arr_data, $col) { $result = array_map(function($arr){return $arr[$col]}, $arr_data); return $result; }}My version is closer to the original than http://github.com/ramsey/array_column<?php/** * Provides functionality for array_column() to projects using PHP earlier than * version 5.5. * @copyright (c) 2015 WinterSilence (http://github.com/WinterSilence) * @license MIT */if (!function_exists('array_column')) { /** * Returns an array of values representing a single column from the input * array. * @param array $array A multi-dimensional array from which to pull a * column of values. * @param mixed $columnKey The column of values to return. This value may * be the integer key of the column you wish to retrieve, or it may be * the string key name for an associative array. It may also be NULL to * return complete arrays (useful together with index_key to reindex * the array). * @param mixed $indexKey The column to use as the index/keys for the * returned array. This value may be the integer key of the column, or * it may be the string key name. * @return array */ function array_column(array $array, $columnKey, $indexKey = null) { $result = array(); foreach ($array as $subArray) { if (!is_array($subArray)) { continue; } elseif (is_null($indexKey) && array_key_exists($columnKey, $subArray)) { $result[] = $subArray[$columnKey]; } elseif (array_key_exists($indexKey, $subArray)) { if (is_null($columnKey)) { $result[$subArray[$indexKey]] = $subArray; } elseif (array_key_exists($columnKey, $subArray)) { $result[$subArray[$indexKey]] = $subArray[$columnKey]; } } } return $result; }}?>If you want to preserve the array keys AND you want it to work on both object properties and array elements AND you want it to work if some of the arrays/objects in the array do not have the given key/property defined, basically the most ROBUST version you can get, yet quick enough:<?phpfunction array_column_keys(array|ArrayAccess $arr, string $col) { // like array_columns but keeps the keys //to make it work for objects and arrays return array_map(fn($e) => (is_countable($e) ? ($e[$col]??null) : null) ?: (is_object($e) ? $e->$col : null), $arr);}?>If a key/property is undefined, the value in the result array will be NULL. You can use array_filter() to filter those out if needed.<?phpclass a { public string $a = 'property a'; public string $b = 'property b';}$a1 = new a;$a2 = new a;$a2->a = 'plop';$b = ['one'=> ['a'=>'plop'], 3 => $a1, 4 => $a2, 5 =>[], 'kud'=>new a];return array_column_keys($b, 'a');?>Returns:Array( [one] => plop [3] => property a [4] => something else [5] => [kud] => property a)If an entry in the source array does not have a column_key element then array_column will silently skip that entry and return an array shorter than the source.If entries can't be uniquely identified by an index_key then there's no way of telling which ones were skipped, as without an index_key array_column returns a plain list.<?php$array = [ ['a' => '0th', 'b' => 'zero'], ['a' => '1st', 'b' => 'one'], ['a' => '2nd' /* oops */], ['a' => '3rd', 'b'=>'three']];var_export(array_column($array, 'b'));var_export(array_column($array, 'b', 'a'));?>I didn't see this explicitly mentioned in the documentation but if an array value is not an array (or an object with the correct functions for access) or the column_key doesn't exist then that value will simply not have a corresponding value in the outputso array_column([[4,5,6], [7,8,9], 10], 0) will return [4,7]. It also means that the suggestion of array_combine(array_keys($array), array_column($array, 'column'));to preserve keys isn't safe unless you verify that nothing will be excluded by the array_column call.If you need to extract more than one column from an array, you can use array_intersect_key on each element, like so:function array_column_multi(array $input, array $column_keys) { $result = array(); $column_keys = array_flip($column_keys); foreach($input as $key => $el) { $result[$key] = array_intersect_key($el, $column_keys); } return $result;}a simple solution:function arrayColumn(array $array, $column_key, $index_key=null){ if(function_exists('array_column ')){ return array_column($array, $column_key, $index_key); } $result = []; foreach($array as $arr){ if(!is_array($arr)) continue; if(is_null($column_key)){ $value = $arr; }else{ $value = $arr[$column_key]; } if(!is_null($index_key)){ $key = $arr[$index_key]; $result[$key] = $value; }else{ $result[] = $value; } } return $result; }if (!function_exists('array_column')){ function array_column($input, $column_key=null, $index_key=null) { $result = array(); $i = 0; foreach ($input as $v) { $k = $index_key === null || !isset($v[$index_key]) ? $i++ : $v[$index_key]; $result[$k] = $column_key === null ? $v : (isset($v[$column_key]) ? $v[$column_key] : null); } return $result; }}array_column() will return duplicate values. Instead of having to use array_unique(), use the $index_key as a hack.**Caution: This may get messy when setting the $column_key and/or $index_key as integers.**<?php$records = [ [ 'id' => 2135, 'first_name' => 'John' ], [ 'id' => 3245, 'first_name' => 'Sally' ], [ 'id' => 5342, 'first_name' => 'Jane' ], [ 'id' => 5623, 'first_name' => 'Peter' ], [ 'id' => 6982, 'first_name' => 'Sally' ]];print_r(array_unique(array_column($records, 'first_name')));// Force uniqueness by making the key the value.print_r(array_column($records, 'first_name', 'first_name'));print_r(array_column($records, 'id', 'first_name'));// Returns/*Array( [0] => John [1] => Sally [2] => Jane [3] => Peter)Array( [John] => John [Sally] => Sally [Jane] => Jane [Peter] => Peter)Array( [John] => 2135 [Sally] => 6982 [Jane] => 5342 [Peter] => 5623)*/?>If array_column is not available you can use the following function, which also has the $index_key parameter:if (!function_exists('array_column')) { function array_column($array, $column_key, $index_key = null) { return array_reduce($array, function ($result, $item) use ($column_key, $index_key) { if (null === $index_key) { $result[] = $item[$column_key]; } else { $result[$item[$index_key]] = $item[$column_key]; } return $result; }, []); }}If you want to rearrage an array with two layers (perhaps from database-requests), then use 'array_walk' instead:<?php $yamlList = [ ['title' => 'hallo ich', 'identifier' => 'ich', 'Klaus'=> 'doof',], ['title' => 'hallo du', 'identifier' => 'du', 'Klaus'=> 'doof',], ['title' => 'hallo er', 'identifier' => 'er', 'Klaus'=> 'doof',], ]; echo ('Input'."\n".print_r($yamlList,true)."\n"); array_walk($yamlList, function (&$value, $key) { $value = [ $value['title'], $value['identifier'], ]; }); echo ("\n".'Output'."\n".print_r($yamlList,true)."\n");?>The Result===========...OutputArray( [0] => Array ( [0] => hallo ich [1] => ich ) [1] => Array ( [0] => hallo du [1] => du ) [2] => Array ( [0] => hallo er [1] => er ))