array_map

Let's assume we have following situation:

<?php
class MyFilterClass {
    public function filter(array $arr) {
        return array_map(function($value) {
            return $this->privateFilterMethod($value);
        });
    }

    private function privateFilterMethod($value) {
        if (is_numeric($value)) $value++;
        else $value .= '.';
    }
}
?>

This will work, because $this inside anonymous function (unlike for example javascript) is the instance of MyFilterClass inside which we called it.
I hope this would be useful for anyone.

To transpose rectangular two-dimension array, use the following code:

array_unshift($array, null);
$array = call_user_func_array("array_map", $array);

If you need to rotate rectangular two-dimension array on 90 degree, add the following line before or after (depending on the rotation direction you need) the code above:
$array = array_reverse($array);

Here is example:

<?php
$a = array(
  array(1, 2, 3),
  array(4, 5, 6));
array_unshift($a, null);
$a = call_user_func_array("array_map", $a);
print_r($a);
?>

Output:

Array
(
    [0] => Array
        (
            [0] => 1
            [1] => 4
        )

    [1] => Array
        (
            [0] => 2
            [1] => 5
        )

    [2] => Array
        (
            [0] => 3
            [1] => 6
        )

)

If the callback function to be called is a static method from a different namespace, the fully qualified method including namespace must be specified (a use statement is not sufficient to resolve the namespace of the callback function)

<?php
use MyTools;

$arr = [1, 2, 3];

$arr = array_map('Tools::myHelper', $arr);
?>

will cause TypeError: 
array_map() expects parameter 1 to be a valid callback, class 'Tools' not found.

Use the fully qualified name for the callback instead:

<?php
$arr = [1, 2, 3];

$arr = array_map('\MyTools\Tools::myHelper', $arr);
?>

You may be looking for a method to extract values of a multidimensional array on a conditional basis (i.e. a mixture between array_map and array_filter) other than a for/foreach loop. If so, you can take advantage of the fact that 1) the callback method on array_map returns null if no explicit return value is specified (as with everything else) and 2) array_filter with no arguments removes falsy values. 

So for example, provided you have:

<?php
$data = [
    [
        "name" => "John",
        "smoker" => false
    ],
    [
        "name" => "Mary",
        "smoker" => true
    ],
    [
        "name" => "Peter",
        "smoker" => false
    ],
    [
        "name" => "Tony",
        "smoker" => true
    ]
];
?>

You can extract the names of all the non-smokers with the following one-liner:

<?php
$names = array_filter(array_map(function($n) { if(!$n['smoker']) return $n['name']; }, $data));
?>

It's not necessarily better than a for/foreach loop, but the occasional one-liner for trivial tasks can help keep your code cleaner.

The most memory-efficient array_map_recursive().

<?php
function array_map_recursive(callable $func, array $arr) {
    array_walk_recursive($arr, function(&$v) use ($func) {
        $v = $func($v);
    });
    return $arr;
}
?>

If you want to pass an argument like ENT_QUOTES to htmlentities, you can do the follow.

<?php
$array = array_map( 'htmlentities' , $array, array_fill(0 , count($array) , ENT_QUOTES) );
?>

The third argument creates an equal sized array of $array filled with the parameter you want to give with your callback function.

/** 
  * Function which recursively applies a callback to all values and also its
  * keys, and returns the resulting array copy with the updated keys and 
  * values.
  * PHP's built-in function array_walk_recursive() only applies the passed 
  * callback to the array values, not the keys, so this function simply applies
  * the callback to the keys too (hence the need of working with a copy, 
  * as also updating the keys would lead to reference loss of the original
  * array). I needed something like this, hence my idea of sharing it here.
  *
  * @param    callable    $func     callback which takes one parameter (value 
  *                                                   or key to be updated) and returns its 
  *                                                   updated value
  *
  * @param    array          $arr      array of which keys and values shall be 
  *                                                   get updated 
  */

function array_map_recursive(
    callable $func,
    array $arr
) {

      // Initiate copied array which will hold all updated keys + values
      $result = [];

      // Iterate through the key-value pairs of the array
      foreach ( $arr as $key => $value ) {

        // Apply the callback to the key to create the updated key value
        $updated_key = $func( $key );

        // If the iterated value is not an array, that means we have reached the
        // deepest array level for the iterated key, so in that case, assign
        // the updated value to the updated key value in the final output array
        if ( ! is_array( $value ) ) {

          $result[$updated_key] = $func( $value );

        } else {

          // If the iterated value is an array, call the function recursively,
          // By taking the currently iterated value as the $arr argument
          $result[$updated_key] = array_map_recursive(
            $func,
            $arr[$key]
          );

        }

      } // end of iteration through k-v pairs

      // And at the very end, return the generated result set
      return $result;

    } // end of array_map_recursive() function definition

A general solution for the problem of wanting to know the keys in the callback, and/or retain the key association in the returned array:

<?php

/**
 * Like array_map() but callback also gets passed the current key as the
 * first argument like so:
 * function($key, $val, ...$vals) { ... }
 * ...and returned array always maintains key association, even if multiple
 * array arguments are passed.
 */

function array_map_assoc(callable $callback, array $array, array ...$arrays) {
    $keys = array_keys($array);
    array_unshift($arrays, $keys, $array);
    return array_combine($keys, array_map($callback, ...$arrays));
}

?>

Because it uses array_map() directly, it behaves the same way in regard to ignoring the keys of subsequent array arguments. It also has the same variadic signature.