PHP - Convert multidimensional array to 2D array with dot notation keys

This will handle an arbitrary level of nesting:

<? //PHP 5.4+
$dotFlatten = static function(array $item, $context = '') use (&$dotFlatten){
    $retval = [];
    foreach($item as $key => $value){
        if (\is_array($value) === true){
            foreach($dotFlatten($value, "$context$key.") as $iKey => $iValue){
                $retval[$iKey] = $iValue;
            }
        } else {
            $retval["$context$key"] = $value;
        }
    }
    return $retval;
};

var_dump(
    $dotFlatten(
        [
            'key1' => 'value1',
            'key2' => [
                'subkey' => 'subkeyval',
            ],
            'key3' => 'value3',
            'key4' => [
                'subkey4' => [
                    'subsubkey4' => 'subsubkeyval4',
                    'subsubkey5' => 'subsubkeyval5',
                ],
                'subkey5' => 'subkeyval5',
            ],
        ]
    )
);
?>

This is my take on a recursive solution, which works for arrays of any depth:

function convertArray($arr, $narr = array(), $nkey = '') {
    foreach ($arr as $key => $value) {
        if (is_array($value)) {
            $narr = array_merge($narr, convertArray($value, $narr, $nkey . $key . '.'));
        } else {
            $narr[$nkey . $key] = $value;
        }
    }

    return $narr;
}

Which can be called as $newArray = convertArray($myArray).

You could do it like this, but chris's answer should be preferred:

<?php 
$array = array();
foreach($myArray as $key=>$value){
    //1st level
    if(is_array($value)){
        //2nd level
        foreach($value as $key_b=>$value_b){
            //3rd level
            if(is_array($value_b)){
                foreach($value_b as $key_c=>$value_c){
                    $array[$key.'.'.$key_b.'.'.$key_c]=$value_c;
                }
            }else{
                $array[$key.'.'.$key_b]=$value_b;
            }
        }
    }else{
        $array[$key]=$value;
    }
}

print_r($array);
/*
Array
(
[key1] => value1
[key2.subkey] => subkeyval
[key3] => value3
[key4.subkey4.subsubkey4] => subsubkeyval4
[key4.subkey4.subsubkey5] => subsubkeyval5
[key4.subkey5] => subkeyval5
)
*/

This another approach similar to Blafrat above - but handles simply arrays as values.

 function dot_flatten($input_arr, $return_arr = array(), $prev_key = '')
 {
     foreach ($input_arr as $key => $value)
     {
        $new_key = $prev_key . $key;

        // check if it's associative array 99% good
        if (is_array($value) && key($value) !==0 && key($value) !==null)
        {
            $return_arr = array_merge($return_arr, dot_flatten($value, $return_arr, $new_key . '.'));
        }
        else
        {
            $return_arr[$new_key] = $value;
        }
    }

    return $return_arr;
}

(The only case this wouldn't catch is where you had a value that was associative but the first key was 0.)

Note that the RecursiveIteratorIterator can be slower than regular recursive function. https://xenforo.com/community/threads/php-spl-why-is-recursiveiteratoriterator-100x-slower-than-recursive-search.57572/

In this case using the sample array given for 1000 iterations php5.6, this code is twice as fast (recursive=.032 vs interator=.062) - but the difference is probably insignificant for most cases. Mainly I prefer recursive because I find the logic of the Iterator needlessly complicated for a simple use case like this.