Count total of subarrays with certain values in PHP

Question

$example = 
  array
    \'test\' =>
      array(
        \'something\' => \'value\'
      ),
    \'whatever\' =>
      array(
        \'something\' => \'othe         


        

Answer 1

array_filter() is what you need:

count(array_filter($example, function($element){

    return $element['something'] == 'other';

}));

In case you want to be more flexible:

$key = 'something';
$value = 'other';

$c = count(array_filter($example, function($element) use($key, $value){

    return $element[$key] == $value;

}));

Answer 2

You can try the following:

$count = 0;
foreach( $example as $value ) {
    if( in_array("other", $value ) )
        $count++;
}