PHP - Extracting a property from an array of objects

Question

I\'ve got an array of cats objects:

$cats = Array
    (
        [0] => stdClass Object
            (
                [id] => 15
            ),
                 


        

Answer 1

CODE

 15);
$cats[] = (object) array('id' => 18);
$cats[] = (object) array('id' => 23);

function extract_ids($array = array())
{
    $ids = array();
    foreach ($array as $object) {
        $ids[] = $object->id;
    }
    return $ids;
}

$cat_ids = extract_ids($cats);
var_dump($cats);
var_dump($cat_ids);

?>

OUTPUT

# var_dump($cats);
array(3) {
  [0]=>
  object(stdClass)#1 (1) {
    ["id"]=>
    int(15)
  }
  [1]=>
  object(stdClass)#2 (1) {
    ["id"]=>
    int(18)
  }
  [2]=>
  object(stdClass)#3 (1) {
    ["id"]=>
    int(23)
  }
}

# var_dump($cat_ids);
array(3) {
  [0]=>
  int(15)
  [1]=>
  int(18)
  [2]=>
  int(23)
}

I know its using a loop, but it's the simplest way to do it! And using a function it still ends up on a single line.