Combine days where opening hours are similar

Question

How might I code a function in PHP (with CodeIgniter) to merge days with similar opening hours of a store together. For example, if we have:

Mon 9am-5pm
Tue          


        

Answer 1

<?php
$openHours = array(
    'Mon' => '9am-5pm',
    'Tue' => '9am-5pm',
    'Wed' => '9am-9pm',
    'Thu' => '9am-5pm',
    'Fri' => '9am-5pm',
    'Sat' => '9am-7pm',
    'Sun' => '9am-7pm'
);

$summaries = array();
foreach ($openHours as $day => $hours) {
    if (count($summaries) === 0) {
        $current = false;
    } else {
        $current = &$summaries[count($summaries) - 1];
    }
    if ($current === false || $current['hours'] !== $hours) {
        $summaries[] = array('hours' => $hours, 'days' => array($day));
    } else {
        $current['days'][] = $day;
    }
}

foreach ($summaries as $summary) {
    if (count($summary['days']) === 1) {
        echo reset($summary['days']) . ' ' . $summary['hours'] . PHP_EOL;
    } else {
        echo reset($summary['days']) . '-' . end($summary['days']) . ' ' . $summary['hours'] . PHP_EOL;
    }
}

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Answer 2

If you want it in the following format:

Sun-Tue, Fri-Sat: 11am-12am; Wed: 10am-12am; Thu: 9am-12am

Which will group days and handle different times within the week:

<?php
$open_hours = array (
    "Sun" => "11am-12am",
    "Mon" => "11am-12am",
    "Tue" =>  "11am-12am",
    "Wed" =>  "10am-12am",
    "Thu" =>  "9am-12am",
    "Fri" =>  "11am-12am",
    "Sat" =>  "11am-12am"
);

$result = [];
foreach ($open_hours as $day => $hours) {
    if (empty($result) || $previous !== $hours) {
        $result[$hours][] = $day;
    } elseif ($previous === $hours) {
        $key = array_key_last($result[$hours]);
        $current = strtok($result[$hours][$key], '-');
        $result[$hours][$key] = $current.'-'.$day;
    }
    $previous = $hours;
}

// build output (joining days with ,)
$output = [];
foreach ($result as $hours => $days) {
    $output[] = implode(', ', $days).': '.$hours;
}
// join with ;'s and output
echo implode('; ', $output);

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