How to search by key=>value in a multidimensional array in PHP

Question

Is there any fast way to get all subarrays where a key value pair was found in a multidimensional array? I can\'t say how deep the array will be.

Simple example arra

Answer 1

I needed something similar, but to search for multidimensional array by value... I took John example and wrote

function _search_array_by_value($array, $value) {
        $results = array();
        if (is_array($array)) {
            $found = array_search($value,$array);
            if ($found) {
                $results[] = $found;
            }
            foreach ($array as $subarray)
                $results = array_merge($results, $this->_search_array_by_value($subarray, $value));
        }
        return $results;
    }

I hope it helps somebody :)