note 77454 added to ref.array

<?php
/**
 * converts a multidimensional array to a flat array
 *
 * trying to keep the original names of the keys
 * if repeated keys are found a hash will be added to the
 * keys trying to keep as much as possible of the original
 * key context
 *
 * september 30 2007
 * 
 * PHP version 5
 *
 * license         GPL
 *
 */

$array = array ( 0 => array ( 0 => 1, 1 => 2, 2
=> array ( 0 => 3, 1 => 4, 2 => 
array ( 0 => 5, 1 => 6, 2 => array ( 0 => 7, 1
=> 8,),),), 3 => array ( 
    0 => array ( 0 => 9, 1 => 10, 2 => array ( 0
=> 11, 1 => 12, 
    2 => array ( 0 => 13, 1 => 14, 2 => array (
0 => 15, 1 => 16,),),),), 
    1 => array ( 0 => 17, 1 => 18,),),), 1 =>
array ( 0 => 19, 1 => 20,), 
    2 => array ( 0 => array ( 0 => 21, 1 => 22,
2 => array ( 0 => 23, 1 => 24, 
    2 => array ( 0 => 25, 1 => 26, 2 => array (
0 => 27, 1 => 28,),),),), 
    1 => array ( 0 => 29, 1 => 30,),),);

/**
 * transforms a multidimensional array to a flat array
 *
 * the parameter is referenced 
 * so no returning value is needed
 * param array $array the multidimensional array to
flat
 * return void
 */ 
function array_flatten(&$array)
{
    function has_arrays($array)
    {
        foreach ($array as $item) {
            if (is_array($item)) {
                return true;
            }
        }
        return false;
    }

    function copy_array(&$array, $array_key)
    {
        $array2 = $array[$array_key];
        unset($array[$array_key]);
        foreach ($array2 as $subkey => $subvalue) {
            if (array_key_exists($subkey, $array)) {
                $array[generate_unique_key($subkey)] =
$subvalue;
            } else {
                $array[$subkey] = $subvalue;
            }
        }
    }

    function generate_unique_key($key)
    {
        if (strlen($key)>8) {
            $key = $key[0] . $key[1] . $key[2];
        } 
        $id = $key . '_';
        $uid = uniqid();
        $len = strlen($uid);
        $max = (9 - strlen($key));
        for ($c = $len; ; $c --) {
            $id .= $uid[$c];
            if ($c == ($len - $max)) {
                break;
            }
        }
        return $id;
    }

    function get_array_indexes($array)
    {
        $ret_array = array();
        foreach ($array as $key => $value) {
            if (is_array($value)) {
                $ret_array[] = $key;
            }
        }
        return $ret_array;
    }

    while(has_arrays($array)) {
        foreach (get_array_indexes($array) as $key) {
            copy_array($array, $key);
        }
    }
}

    array_flatten($array);
    array_multisort($array);
    var_export($array);

    /**
     *  OUTPUT 
     *
     *  array (
     *    0 => 1,
     *    '1_403767b6' => 2,
     *    '0_793767b6' => 3,
     *    '1_8a3767b6' => 4,
     *    '0_454767b6' => 5,
     *    '1_564767b6' => 6,
     *    '0_035767b6' => 7,
     *    '1_345767b6' => 8,
     *    '0_e74767b6' => 9,
     *    '1_f84767b6' => 10,
     *    '0_855767b6' => 11,
     *    '1_a65767b6' => 12,
     *    '0_4e5767b6' => 13,
     *    '1_6f5767b6' => 14,
     *    '0_566767b6' => 15,
     *    '1_876767b6' => 16,
     *    '0_5b4767b6' => 17,
     *    '1_6c4767b6' => 18,
     *    '0_d43767b6' => 19,
     *    1 => 20,
     *    '0_4e3767b6' => 21,
     *    '1_5f3767b6' => 22,
     *    '0_ad4767b6' => 23,
     *    '1_ce4767b6' => 24,
     *    '0_485767b6' => 25,
     *    '1_695767b6' => 26,
     *    '0_116767b6' => 27,
     *    '1_426767b6' => 28,
     *    '0_814767b6' => 29,
     *    '1_924767b6' => 30,
     *  )
     */
?>
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