PHP multidimensional array search by value

Question

I have an array where I want to search the uid and get the key of the array.

Examples

Assume we have the following 2-dimensional array:

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Answer 1

I modified one of examples below description function array_search. Function searchItemsByKey return all value(s) by $key from multidimensional array ( N levels). Perhaps , it would be useful for somebody. Example:

 $arr = array(
     'XXX'=>array(
               'YYY'=> array(
                    'AAA'=> array(
                          'keyN' =>'value1'
                   )
               ),
              'ZZZ'=> array(
                    'BBB'=> array(
                          'keyN' => 'value2'
                   )
               )
              //.....
           )
);


$result = searchItemsByKey($arr,'keyN');

print '
';
print_r($result);
print '
';
// OUTPUT
Array
(
  [0] => value1
  [1] => value2
)


Function code:

function searchItemsByKey($array, $key)
{
   $results = array();

  if (is_array($array))
  {
    if (isset($array[$key]) && key($array)==$key)
        $results[] = $array[$key];

    foreach ($array as $sub_array)
        $results = array_merge($results, searchItemsByKey($sub_array, $key));
  }

 return  $results;
}