PHP: Turning multidimensional arrays to single dimension arrays

Question

Basically my app is interacting with a web service that sends back a weird multidimensional array such as:

Array
(
    [0] => Array
        (
                     


        

Answer 1

I am using laravel's helper: http://laravel.com/api/source-function-array_flatten.html#179-192

function array_flatten($array)
    {
        $return = array();

        array_walk_recursive($array, function($x) use (&$return) { $return[] = $x; });

        return $return;
    }