How to generate in PHP all combinations of items in multiple arrays

Question

I\'im trying to find all combinations of items in several arrays. The number of arrays is random (this can be 2, 3, 4, 5...). The number of elements in each array is random

Answer 1

This code besides simplicity, get all combinations of multiple arrays and preserves keys.

function get_combinations($arrays) {
    $result = array(array());
    foreach ($arrays as $property => $property_values) {
        $tmp = array();
        foreach ($result as $result_item) {
            foreach ($property_values as $property_key => $property_value) {
                $tmp[] = $result_item + array($property_key => $property_value);
            }
        }
        $result = $tmp;
    }
    return $result;
}

Exemple:

Array
(
    Array
    (
        '1' => 'White',
        '2' => 'Green',
        '3' => 'Blue'
    ),
    Array
    (
        '4' =>' Small',
        '5' => 'Big'
    )
)

Will return:

Array
(
    [0] => Array
    (
        [1] => White
        [4] =>  Small
    )
    [1] => Array
    (
        [1] => White
        [5] => Big
    )
    [2] => Array
    (
        [2] => Green
        [4] =>  Small
    )
    [3] => Array
    (
        [2] => Green
        [5] => Big
    )
    [4] => Array
    (
        [3] => Blue
        [4] =>  Small
    )
    [5] => Array
    (
        [3] => Blue
        [5] => Big
    )
)