Question

Is there is simple and quick way to convert php array from

 $actions =  Array ( [visits-visit] => Array ( 
                                  [0] => index 
                                  [1] => edit 
                                  [2] => add 
                                  [3] => delete 
                                  [4] => search 
                                ) 
       ) 

to

Array ( [visits-visit] => Array ( index ,edit ,add ,delete, search ) ) 

I have an array in the first format, and need to add it as this

 $this->allow($_userRole, 'module-contr', array( index ,edit ,add ,delete, search));

when I make like this

$this->allow($_userRole, 'module-contr', array( $actions ));

it’s not accepted as I want.

Answer 1

Those two arrays are essentially the same… The first array is simply how it will be displayed should you decide to print it out (with print_r() for example). When you are defining an array IE. creating an array with values already inside it, you would write something like this –

$someArr = array(
  'index_of_another_array' => Array ( 'index' ,'edit' ,'add' ,'delete', 'search' )
); 

Essentially the array you are creating already has the numerical indexes implied by the order of their appearance… The element at index [0] is the string index. At index [1] you have the string edit… At index [2] you have add… and so on…

Another thing to note is this line that you stated –

$this->allow($_userRole, 'module-contr', array( $actions ));

With the last parameter, what you are essentially doing is passing the $actions within an additional array! What you are doing is creating a new array with the first element equal to $actions. I think you should remove that additional array by simply passing $actions and not array( $actions )

I hope this cleared things up a little bit…