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<?php
// quick and dirty color generator
function getColors($count) {
$colors = array();
for ($i = 0; $i < $count; $i++) {
$colors[] = '#' . substr(md5("color$i"), 0, 6);
}
return $colors;
}
// names
$names = array(
array('sanitized' => 'lisa', 'original' => 'Lisa', 'weight' => 5, 'color' => 'blank'),
array('sanitized' => 'jack', 'original' => 'Jack', 'weight' => 1, 'color' => 'blank'),
array('sanitized' => 'jerry', 'original' => 'Jerry', 'weight' => 2, 'color' => 'blank'),
array('sanitized' => 'paul', 'original' => 'Paul', 'weight' => 4, 'color' => 'blank'),
array('sanitized' => 'ron', 'original' => 'Ron', 'weight' => 2, 'color' => 'blank'),
array('sanitized' => 'harry', 'original' => 'Harry', 'weight' => 3, 'color' => 'blank'),
array('sanitized' => 'mike', 'original' => 'Mike', 'weight' => 4, 'color' => 'blank'),
array('sanitized' => 'lisa', 'original' => 'Lisa', 'weight' => 3, 'color' => 'blank'),
array('sanitized' => 'ron', 'original' => 'Ron', 'weight' => 5, 'color' => 'blank'),
array('sanitized' => 'dylan', 'original' => 'Dylan', 'weight' => 1, 'color' => 'blank'),
);
$colors = getColors(count($names));
$combined = array();
// loop once to build the combined array and set the colors
foreach ($names as &$name) {
if (!isset($combined[$name['sanitized']])) {
$combined[$name['sanitized']] = array(
'original' => $name['original'],
'weight' => $name['weight'],
'color' => array_pop($colors),
'count' => 1,
);
} elseif ($combined[$name['sanitized']]['count'] < 3) {
$combined[$name['sanitized']]['weight'] += $name['weight'];
$combined[$name['sanitized']]['count']++;
}
$name['color'] = $combined[$name['sanitized']]['color'];
}
// loop again to blank any colors where name only appeared once
foreach ($names as &$name) {
if ($combined[$name['sanitized']]['count'] === 1) {
$combined[$name['sanitized']]['color'] = $name['color'] = 'blank';
}
}
var_dump($combined, $names);
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