Get array values by keys

Question

I am searching for a built in php function that takes array of keys as input and returns me corresponding values.

for e.g. I have a following array

Answer 1

I think you are searching for array_intersect_key. Example:

array_intersect_key(array('a' => 1, 'b' => 3, 'c' => 5), 
                    array_flip(array('a', 'c')));

Would return:

array('a' => 1, 'c' => 5);

You may use array('a' => '', 'c' => '') instead of array_flip(...) if you want to have a little simpler code.

Note the array keys are preserved. You should use array_values afterwards if you need a sequential array.

Answer 2

foreach($input_arr as $key) {
    $output_arr[] = $mapping[$key];
}

This will result in $output_arr having the values corresponding to a list of keys in $input_arr, based on the key->value mapping in $mapping. If you want, you could wrap it in a function:

function get_values_for_keys($mapping, $keys) {
    foreach($keys as $key) {
        $output_arr[] = $mapping[$key];
    }
    return $output_arr;
}

Then you would just call it like so:

$a = array('a' => 1, 'b' => 2, 'c' => 3);
$values = get_values_for_keys($a, array('a', 'c'));
// $values is now array(1, 3)

Answer 3

An alternative answer:

$keys = array("key2", "key4");

return array_map(function($x) use ($arr) { return $arr[$x]; }, $keys);