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PHP Array Exercises : Calculate and display average temperature

PHP Array: Exercise-9 with Solution

Write a PHP script to calculate and display average temperature, five lowest and highest temperatures.

Recorded temperatures : 78, 60, 62, 68, 71, 68, 73, 85, 66, 64, 76, 63, 75, 76, 73, 68, 62, 73, 72, 65, 74, 62, 62, 65, 64, 68, 73, 75, 79, 73

Sample Solution:

PHP Code:

<?php
$month_temp = "78, 60, 62, 68, 71, 68, 73, 85, 66, 64, 76, 63, 81, 76, 73,
68, 72, 73, 75, 65, 74, 63, 67, 65, 64, 68, 73, 75, 79, 73";
$temp_array = explode(',', $month_temp);
$tot_temp = 0;
$temp_array_length = count($temp_array);
foreach($temp_array as $temp)
{
 $tot_temp += $temp;
}
 $avg_high_temp = $tot_temp/$temp_array_length;
 echo "Average Temperature is : ".$avg_high_temp."
"; 
sort($temp_array);
echo "
 List of five lowest temperatures :";
for ($i=0; $i< 5; $i++)
{ 
echo $temp_array[$i].", ";
}
echo "
List of five highest temperatures :";
for ($i=($temp_array_length-5); $i< ($temp_array_length); $i++)
{
echo $temp_array[$i].", ";
}
?>

Sample Output: 

Average Temperature is : 70.6                               
List of five lowest temperatures : 60,  62,  63,  63,  64,
List of five highest temperatures : 76, 78,  79,  81,  85,

Flowchart:

Flowchart: Calculate and display average temperature

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PHP: Tips of the Day

Convert a PHP object to an associative array

Just typecast it

$array = (array) $yourObject;

From Arrays:

If an object is converted to an array, the result is an array whose elements are the object's properties. The keys are the member variable names, with a few notable exceptions: integer properties are unaccessible; private variables have the class name prepended to the variable name; protected variables have a '*' prepended to the variable name.These prepended values have null bytes on either side.

Example: Simple Object

$object = new StdClass;
$object->foo = 1;
$object->bar = 2;

var_dump( (array) $object );

Output:

array(2) {
  'foo' => int(1)
  'bar' => int(2)
}

Example: Complex Object

class Foo
{
    private $foo;
    protected $bar;
    public $baz;

    public function __construct()
    {
        $this->foo = 1;
        $this->bar = 2;
        $this->baz = new StdClass;
    }
}

var_dump( (array) new Foo );

Output (with \0s edited in for clarity):

array(3) {
  '\0Foo\0foo' => int(1)
  '\0*\0bar' => int(2)
  'baz' => class stdClass#2 (0) {}
}

Output with var_export instead of var_dump:

array (
  '' . "\0" . 'Foo' . "\0" . 'foo' => 1,
  '' . "\0" . '*' . "\0" . 'bar' => 2,
  'baz' =>
  stdClass::__set_state(array(
  )),
)

Typecasting this way will not do deep casting of the object graph and you need to apply the null bytes (as explained in the manual quote) to access any non-public attributes. So this works best when casting StdClass objects or objects with only public properties. For quick and dirty (what you asked for) it's fine.

Also see this in-depth blog post:

  • Fast PHP Object to Array conversion

Ref : https://bit.ly/3fqiV2E