How can i pass a single additional argument to array_map callback in PHP?

array-map, arrays, callback, closures, php

Solution

This is exactly what closures are about:

$getLimit = function($name) use ($smsPattern) {
    if(preg_match($smsPattern, $name, $m)) return $m['l'];
};

$smsLimits = array_filter(array_map($getLimit, $features));

If you want to generalize it to other patterns, wrap the function creation into another function:

function patternMatcher($pattern) {
    return function($name) use ($pattern) {
        if(preg_match($pattern, $name, $m)) return $m['l'];
    };
}

$getLimit = patternMatcher($smsPattern);
$smsLimits = array_filter(array_map($getLimit, $features));

And here it is wrapped up as an anonymous function:

$patternMatcher = function($pattern) {
    return function($name) use ($pattern) {
        if(preg_match($pattern, $name, $m)) return $m['l'];
    };
};

$smsLimits = array_filter(array_map($patternMatcher($smsPattern), $features));

Problem

How can i pass a single additional argument to `array_map` callback? In my example i'd like to pass `$smsPattern` (as a second argument, after current element in `$featureNames`) to the function `array_map` with `$getLimit` closure: ``` $features = $usage->getSubscription()->getUser()->getRoles(); // SMS regular expression in the form of ROLE_SEND_SMS_X $smsPattern = '/^ROLE_SEND_SMS_(?P<l>\d+)$/i'; // Function to get roles names and X from a role name $getNames = function($r) { return trim($r->getRole()); }; $getLimit = function($name, $pattern) { if(preg_match($pattern, $name, $m)) return $m['l']; }; // Get roles names and their limits ignoring null values with array_filter $featuresNames = array_map($getNames, $features); $smsLimits = array_filter(array_map($getLimit, $featureNames, $smsPattern)); ``` With this code i'm getting a weird warning: Warning: array_map() [function.array-map]: Argument #3 should be an array. Of course di reason is for reusing `$getLimit` closure with another regular expression like `$smsPattern`. Thanks.

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