in_array() and multidimensional array

Question

I use in_array() to check whether a value exists in an array like below,

$a = array(\"Mac\", \"NT\", \"Irix\", \"Linux\");
if (in_array(\"Irix\"         


        

Answer 1

if your array like this

$array = array(
              array("name" => "Robert", "Age" => "22", "Place" => "TN"), 
              array("name" => "Henry", "Age" => "21", "Place" => "TVL")
         );

Use this

function in_multiarray($elem, $array,$field)
{
    $top = sizeof($array) - 1;
    $bottom = 0;
    while($bottom <= $top)
    {
        if($array[$bottom][$field] == $elem)
            return true;
        else 
            if(is_array($array[$bottom][$field]))
                if(in_multiarray($elem, ($array[$bottom][$field])))
                    return true;

        $bottom++;
    }        
    return false;
}

example : echo in_multiarray("22", $array,"Age");

Answer 2

This will work too.

function in_array_r($item , $array){
    return preg_match('/"'.preg_quote($item, '/').'"/i' , json_encode($array));
}

Usage:

if(in_array_r($item , $array)){
    // found!
}

Answer 3

I believe you can just use array_key_exists nowadays:

<?php
$a=array("Mac"=>"NT","Irix"=>"Linux");
if (array_key_exists("Mac",$a))
  {
  echo "Key exists!";
  }
else
  {
  echo "Key does not exist!";
  }
?>

Answer 4

This will do it:

foreach($b as $value)
{
    if(in_array("Irix", $value, true))
    {
        echo "Got Irix";
    }
}

in_array only operates on a one dimensional array, so you need to loop over each sub array and run in_array on each.

As others have noted, this will only for for a 2-dimensional array. If you have more nested arrays, a recursive version would be better. See the other answers for examples of that.

Answer 5

I used this method works for any number of nested and not require hacking

<?php
    $blogCategories = [
        'programing' => [
            'golang',
            'php',
            'ruby',
            'functional' => [
                'Erlang',
                'Haskell'
            ]
        ],
        'bd' => [
            'mysql',
            'sqlite'
        ]
    ];
    $it = new RecursiveArrayIterator($blogCategories);
    foreach (new RecursiveIteratorIterator($it) as $t) {
        $found = $t == 'Haskell';
        if ($found) {
           break;
        }
    }

Answer 6

I found really small simple solution:

If your array is :

Array
(
[details] => Array
    (
        [name] => Dhruv
        [salary] => 5000
    )

[score] => Array
    (
        [ssc] => 70
        [diploma] => 90
        [degree] => 70
    )

)

then the code will be like:

 if(in_array("5000",$array['details'])){
             echo "yes found.";
         }
     else {
             echo "no not found";
          }