Whatever speed one might hope to gain by using array_walk, is lost with function overhead. Since you stated in your comments that the array is a result of a db query, you can simply include the bag
value in your result set by adding SELECT 'bag' AS 'type'
to your SQL statement.
$start = 0; $end = 0;
$orig = array(
array('id' => 1, 'title' => 'title 1'),
array('id' => 10, 'title' => 'title 10'),
array('id' => 11, 'title' => 'title 11')
);
// A
$start = microtime(true);
for ($a=0; $a<1000; $a++) {
$els1 = $orig;
array_walk($els1, function(&$val, $key){$val['type'] = 'bag';});
}
$end = microtime(true);
echo 'A: ', $end - $start, "<br />\n";
// B
$start = microtime(true);
for ($b=0; $b<1000; $b++) {
$els2 = $orig;
foreach ($els2 as &$el) {
$el['type'] = 'bag';
}
unset($el);
}
$end = microtime(true);
echo 'B: ', $end - $start, "<br />\n";
/* output:
A: 0.0076138973236084
B: 0.0047528743743896
A: 0.0075309276580811
B: 0.0045361518859863
A: 0.0075531005859375
B: 0.062379837036133
A: 0.0075340270996094
B: 0.0044951438903809
A: 0.0074868202209473
B: 0.0044751167297363
A: 0.0076088905334473
B: 0.0048189163208008
*/