Question

Is there a built in function to do the following?

$a[] = $b[0]['foo'];
$a[] = $b[1]['foo'];
$a[] = $b[2]['foo'];
etc..

I realize I can do something like the following:

foreach($b as $c)
{
    $a[] = $c['foo'];
}

But I am really just curious if there is some built in array function that will do this. Thanks.

Answer 1

In short: no.

In long: Maybe 😉 Its because its not “directly built-in”

With PHP5.3

$a = array_map (function ($entry) {
  return $entry['foo'];
}, $b);

or before

$a = array_map (create_function ('$entry', 'return $entry[\'foo\'];'), $b);

At least for the second solution I would prefer the foreach-loop 😉