(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)
min — Trova il valore minimo
min() restituisce il numericamente più piccolo dei valori dati come parametro.
Se il primo ed unico pareametro è un array, la funzione min() restituisce il valore più basso nell'array. Se il primo parametro è un intero, una stringa, o un float, occorrono almeno due parametri e min() restituisce il minore tra questi. Si può confrontare un numero illimitato di valori.
Nota:
Le stringhe non numeriche saranno considerate dal PHP come
0, ma verrà restituita la stringa se questa è il più basso valore numerico. Se vi sono più argomenti considerati come0, la funzione min() restituirà il primo (il valore più a sinistra).
Example #1 Esempio di uso di min()
<?php
echo min(2, 3, 1, 6, 7); // 1
echo min(array(2, 4, 5)); // 2
echo min(0, 'hello'); // 0
echo min('hello', 0); // hello
echo min('hello', -1); // -1
// Con diversi array, min confronta da sinistra a destra
// quindi nell'esempio: 2 == 2, e 4 < 5
$val = min(array(2, 4, 8), array(2, 5, 1)); // array(2, 4, 8)
// In caso di parametri misti array e non array, l'array non sarà mai restituito
// perché considerato il più grande
$val = min('string', array(2, 5, 7), 42); // string
?>min() (and max()) on DateTime objects compares them like dates (with timezone info) and returns DateTime object.
<?php
$dt1 = new DateTime('2014-05-07 18:53', new DateTimeZone('Europe/Kiev'));
$dt2 = new DateTime('2014-05-07 16:53', new DateTimeZone('UTC'));
echo max($dt1,$dt2)->format(DateTime::RFC3339) . PHP_EOL; // 2014-05-07T16:53:00+00:00
echo min($dt1,$dt2)->format(DateTime::RFC3339) . PHP_EOL; // 2014-05-07T18:53:00+03:00
?>
It works at least 5.3.3-7+squeeze17NEVER EVER use this function with boolean variables !!!
Or you'll get something like this: min(true, 1, -2) == true;
Just because of:
min(true, 1, -2) == min(min(true,1), -2) == min(true, -2) == true;
You are warned !A way to bound a integer between two values is:
function bound($x, $min, $max)
{
return min(max($x, $min), $max);
}
which is the same as:
$tmp = $x;
if($tmp < $min)
{
$tmp = $min;
}
if($tmp > $max)
{
$tmp = $max;
}
$y = $tmp;
So if you wanted to bound an integer between 1 and 12 for example:
Input:
$x = 0;
echo bound(0, 1, 12).'<br />';
$x = 1;
echo bound($x, 1, 12).'<br />';
$x = 6;
echo bound($x, 1, 12).'<br />';
$x = 12;
echo bound($x, 1, 12).'<br />';
$x = 13;
echo bound($x, 1, 12).'<br />';
Output:
1
1
6
12
12> NEVER EVER use this function with boolean variables !!!
> Or you'll get something like this: min(true, 1, -2) == true;
> Just because of:
> min(true, 1, -2) == min(min(true,1), -2) == min(true, -2) == true;
It is possible to use it with booleans, there is is just one thing, which you need to keep in mind, when evaluating using the non strict comparison (==) anyting that is not bool false, 0 or NULL is consideret true eg.:
(5 == true) = true;
(0 == true) = false;
true is also actually anything else then 0, false and null. However when true is converted to a string or interger true == 1, therefore when sorting true = 1. But if true is the maximum number bool true is returned. so to be sure, if you only want to match if true is the max number remember to use the strict comparison operater ===A function that returns the lowest integer that is not 0.
<?php
/* like min(), but casts to int and ignores 0 */
function min_not_null(Array $values) {
return min(array_diff(array_map('intval', $values), array(0)));
}
?>I've modified the bugfree min-version to ignore NULL values (else it returns 0).
<?php
function min_mod () {
$args = func_get_args();
if (!count($args[0])) return false;
else {
$min = false;
foreach ($args[0] AS $value) {
if (is_numeric($value)) {
$curval = floatval($value);
if ($curval < $min || $min === false) $min = $curval;
}
}
}
return $min;
}
?>Be very careful when your array contains both strings and numbers. This code works strange (even though explainable) way:
var_dump(max('25.1.1', '222', '99'));
var_dump(max('2.1.1', '222', '99'));Here is function can find min by array key
<?php
function min_by_key($arr, $key){
$min = array();
foreach ($arr as $val) {
if (!isset($val[$key]) and is_array($val)) {
$min2 = min_by_key($val, $key);
$min[$min2] = 1;
} elseif (!isset($val[$key]) and !is_array($val)) {
return false;
} elseif (isset($val[$key])) {
$min[$val[$key]] = 1;
}
}
return min( array_keys($min) );
}
?>A condensed version (and possible application) of returning an array of array keys containing the same minimum value:
<?php
// data
$min_keys = array();
$player_score_totals = array(
'player1' => 300,
'player2' => 301,
'player3' => 302,
'player4' => 301,
...
);
// search for array keys with min() value
foreach($player_score_totals as $playerid => $score)
if($score == min($player_score_totals)) array_push($min_keys, $playerid);
print_r($min_keys);
?>If NAN is the first argument to min(), the second argument will always be returned.
If NAN is the second argument, NAN will always be returned.
The relationship is the same but inverted for max().
<?php
// \n's skipped for brevity
print max(0,NAN);
print max(NAN,0);
print min(0,NAN);
print min(NAN,0);
?>
Returns:
0
NAN
NAN
0A min_by function:
<?php
function min_by(Array $arr, Callable $func){
$mapped = array_map($func, $arr);
return $arr[array_search(min($mapped), $mapped)];
}
$a = ["albatross", "dog", "horse"];
echo min_by($a, "strlen"); // dog
?>I tested this with max(), but I suppose it applies to min() too: If you are working with numbers, then you can use:
$a = ($b < $c) ? $b : $c;
which is somewhat faster (roughly 16%) than
$a = min($b, $c);
I tested this on several loops using integers and floats, over 1 million iterations.
I'm running PHP 4.3.1 as a module for Apache 1.3.27.