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I have an array of objects eg.

[ array( 'id' => 1, 'name' => "simon" ), ... ]

and I need to get an array of IDs eg. [1,2,3,4,5];

Currently I'm doing this:

    $entities = $this->works_order_model->get_assigned_entities($id);

    $employee_ids = array();

    foreach ($entities as $entity) {
        array_push($employee_ids, $entity->id);
    }

Is there a best practice way of doing this?

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I think array_map is what you are looking for:

php > $aa = array (array ("id" => 1, "name" => 'what'), array('id' => 2));
php > function id($i) { return $i['id'];};
php > print_r(array_map ('id', $aa));
Array
(
    [0] => 1
    [1] => 2
)
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Thanks for this. Is the function id() necessary? I don't see it being used. – JordanC Sep 12 '11 at 22:08
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It is used as the first argument to array_map (the first argument is a string that is the name of a function to use). – kasterma Sep 13 '11 at 1:23

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