Question

I have a multidimensional array as follows:

Array(
    [0] => Array
        (
            [name] => item 1
            [quantity] => 2
            [price] => 20.00
        )

    [1] => Array
        (
            [name] => item 2
            [quantity] => 1
            [price] => 15.00
        )

    [2] => Array
        (
            [name] => item 3
            [quantity] => 4
            [price] => 2.00
        )

)

I need the ‘grand total’ of all these items. Now clearly I could get these by doing the following:

$grand_total = 0;
foreach ($myarray as $item) {
    $grand_total += $item['price'] * $item['quantity'];
}
echo $grand_total;

My question is – can this be done in less lines of code using any of the array functions in PHP?

Answer 1

no. you would have to define a callback function to use array_reduce. this would even get longer but make the code better reusable.

EDIT: Didn’t write PHP for a long time but this should do it:

function sum_total_price_of_items($sum, $item) {
    return $sum + $item['price'] * $item['quantity']
}
echo array_reduce($myarray, "sum_total_price_of_items", 0)