Question about printing a multidimensional array

noimad1

I have a huge array that I need to print out. The print_r works except that it actually prints out the locatin within the array ie:

Array ( [0] => 1971 EXTS
[1] => ddd
[2] => abc
[3] => def
[4] => ggg
[5] => bbb
Array ( [0] => 1971 EXT
[1] => bscc
[2] => sddd
[3] => d3ddc

However, I want to print out the entire array without the [2] => part of it. But this is a huge multidimensional array, so I'm not sure exactly how to do that.

Basically what I am doing is writing a script that prints out all of the files in a directory and all subdirectories. And i am storing them into an array and formatting them as html links. Since i have hundreds of directories with thousands of html files in each directory I want to be able to run this script so I can make a static sitemap file of all the files in those subdirectories...

So I want to echo all of the links out to a page so that I can copy them into a sitemap file....

So anyone know how I can do this? I could easily loop through the array if it was single dimensional, but don't know how to do this multidimensionally...

Installer

If I read it right, that's kind of a strange way to structure your array. Anyway, again if I read it right, you could echo it like this:

foreach ($array as $value) {
    echo '<strong>' . $value[0] . '</strong><br />';
    for ($i = 1; $i < count($value); $i++) {
        echo '<a href="' . $value[$i] . '">' . $value[$i] . '</a><br />';
    }
}

noimad1

Installer wrote:
If I read it right, that's kind of a strange way to structure your array. Anyway, again if I read it right, you could echo it like this:
foreach ($array as $value) {
    echo '<strong>' . $value[0] . '</strong><br />';
    for ($i = 1; $i < count($value); $i++) {
        echo '<a href="' . $value[$i] . '">' . $value[$i] . '</a><br />';
    }
}

Yea, it is a strange way to structure it I agree. However, it is the only way I can structure it since it is pulling files from a main directory, then subdirectories, then subdirectories of that. And I have to keep the path for each directory.

The problem I think I have with using the "count" function is that since it is multidimensional it doesn't catch all of the sub-arrays inside, only the main ones...?

Installer

Then I didn't read your array right. I saw it as a two-dimensional array, with the directory hierarchy not maintained (i.e. each directory being a coequal array element to the files in it) .

I don't know why the way you suggest in your second post (if I read it right) is "the only way". The directory structure is a hierachical one, and, imo, the array structure shoud reflect that. For instance, like this:

Array
(
    [Topdir] => Array
        (
            [0] => file1
            [1] => file2
            [subdir1] => Array
                (
                    [0] => file1
                    [1] => file2
                    [subsubdir1] => Array
                        (
                            [0] => file1
                            [1] => file2
                        )

                [subsubdir2] => Array
                    (
                        [0] => file1
                        [1] => file2
                    )

            )

        [subdir2] => Array
            (
                [0] => file1
                [1] => file2
                [subsubdir1] => Array
                    (
                        [0] => file1
                        [1] => file2
                    )

            )

    )

)

Then you could display it with a recursive function, using "if (is_array($element))".