How do I sum up weighted arrays in PHP?

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Published on 2008-10-24T09:40:53Z Indexed on 2010/05/29 7:32 UTC
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Hod do I multiply the values of a multi-dimensional array with weigths and sum up the results into a new array in PHP or in general?

The boring way looks like this:

$weights = array(0.25, 0.4, 0.2, 0.15);
$values  = array
           ( 
             array(5,10,15), 
             array(20,25,30), 
             array(35,40,45), 
             array(50,55,60)
           );
$result  = array();

for($i = 0; $i < count($values[0]); ++$i) {
  $result[$i] = 0;
  foreach($weights as $index => $thisWeight)
    $result[$i] += $thisWeight * $values[$index][$i];
}

Is there a more elegant solution?

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