PHP best way to MD5 multi-dimensional array?

Question

What is the best way to generate an MD5 (or any other hash) of a multi-dimensional array?

I could easily write a loop which would traverse through each level of the

Answer 1

I think that this could be a good tip:

Class hasharray {

    public function array_flat($in,$keys=array(),$out=array()){
        foreach($in as $k => $v){
            $keys[] = $k; 
            if(is_array($v)){
                $out = $this->array_flat($v,$keys,$out);
            }else{
                $out[implode("/",$keys)] = $v;
            }
            array_pop($keys);
        }
        return $out;  
    }

    public function array_hash($in){
        $a = $this->array_flat($in);
        ksort($a);
        return md5(json_encode($a));
    }

}

$h = new hasharray;
echo $h->array_hash($multi_dimensional_array);