php: Array keys case *insensitive* lookup?

Question

$myArray = array (\'SOmeKeyNAme\' => 7);  

I want $myArray[\'somekeyname\'] to return 7.
Is there a way to do this

Answer 1

You could use ArrayAccess interface to create a class that works with array syntax.

Example

$lower_array_object = new CaseInsensitiveArray;
$lower_array_object["thisISaKEY"] = "value";
print $lower_array_object["THISisAkey"]; //prints "value"

or

$lower_array_object = new CaseInsensitiveArray(
    array( "SoMeThInG" => "anything", ... )
);
print $lower_array_object["something"]; //prints "anything"

Class

class CaseInsensitiveArray implements ArrayAccess
{
    private $_container = array();

    public function __construct( Array $initial_array = array() ) {
        $this->_container = array_map( "strtolower", $initial_array );
    }

    public function offsetSet($offset, $value) {
        if( is_string( $offset ) ) $offset = strtolower($offset);
        if (is_null($offset)) {
            $this->container[] = $value;
        } else {
            $this->container[$offset] = $value;
        }
    }

    public function offsetExists($offset) {
        if( is_string( $offset ) ) $offset = strtolower($offset);
        return isset($this->_container[$offset]);
    }

    public function offsetUnset($offset) {
        if( is_string( $offset ) ) $offset = strtolower($offset);
        unset($this->container[$offset]);
    }

    public function offsetGet($offset) {
        if( is_string( $offset ) ) $offset = strtolower($offset);
        return isset($this->container[$offset])
            ? $this->container[$offset]
            : null;
    }
}