Question

I have some markup that needs to be looped accordingly depending on the array, if it is multidimensional i have to loop it one way, if not i do not have to loop it.

As it is now i solve this by doing a big ‘ol if/else and print the “static” markup if its not multidimensional, and loop the markup if it is. This is ugly as heeell and makes me use 2 identical blocks of markup.

if (count($data_array) == count($data_array, COUNT_RECURSIVE)) 
    { block of html }
else
{ looped-almost same block of html }

Anyone got a better solution for this, i’d be happy to implement it instead 🙂

Edit: To clearify , i have a table that has properties looped, or not looped.

foreach($i as $b => $v)
$v['item']

where $v['item'] runs through the table if the array is multidimensional
if the array is not multidimensional i print the table with simply $i['item']

wich makes me use 2 identical html-blocks the only difference is the $v / $i

Answer 1

After you updated your answer, I think that simply checking for $array['item'] with isset could solve your problem.

Example:

if(isset($array['item'])) {
    // Do non-recursive stuff
}
else {
    // Do more checks and recursive stuff
}

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Old answer:

Have you thought about is_array?

for($yourArray as $key => $value) {
    if (is_array($value)) {
        // Do multidimensional stuff
    }
    else {
        // Do normal stuff
    }
}