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Sobia Safdar
Sobia Safdar

Reputation: 83

find value in multidimensional array

I have to find value in a multidimensional array, size of array is not defined. Let suppose user enters 1601 , result will be 011. and if 1605 , the result will be 015 according to array 

   array (size=6)
      0 => 
        array (size=2)
          0 => string 'Zipcode' (length=7)
          1 => string 'Territory Code' (length=14)
      1 => 
        array (size=2)
          0 => string '1601' (length=4)
          1 => string '011' (length=3)
      2 => 
        array (size=2)
          0 => string '1602' (length=4)
          1 => string '012' (length=3)
      3 => 
        array (size=2)
          0 => string '1603' (length=4)
          1 => string '013' (length=3)
      4 => 
        array (size=2)
          0 => string '1604' (length=4)
          1 => string '014' (length=3)
      5 => 
        array (size=2)
          0 => string '1605' (length=4)
          1 => string '015' (length=3)

Upvotes: 1

Views: 330

Answers (2)

minttux
minttux

Reputation: 435

I wrote a nested function that does it:

$read=[
    ['Honar','607836545742426','IRO7P0001'],
    ['Danial','2304906587905','IRO7KHEP01'],
    ['Key'=>['sub_key'=>'sub_value']]
];

function is_exists_value($array,$needle){

    if(!is_array($array) || is_null($needle))
        exit("Error: check input");

    if (array_key_exists($needle, $array)){
        return true;
    }elseif(in_array($needle,$array)){
        return true;
    }else{
        foreach ($array as $value)
            if(is_array($value))
                if(is_exists_value($value,$needle))
                    return true;
    }

    return false;
}

var_dump(is_exists_value($read,"sub_value")); // Return True 
var_dump(is_exists_value($read,"Key")); // Return True

Upvotes: 0

AbraCadaver
AbraCadaver

Reputation: 78994

If Zipcode is unique then you can do:

echo array_column($array, 1, 0)[1601];

Or if Territory Code is unique:

echo array_search(1601, array_column($array, 0, 1), true);

array_column() extracts a column from the multi-dimensional array to create a one dimensional array.

array array_column ( array $input , mixed $column_key [, mixed $index_key = null ] )

The second parameter $column_key defining which column you want to get from the multidimensional array as values into the one dimensional array. And the third parameter $index_key defining which column you want to use as keys for the one dimensional array which you get back. If $index_key is not defined, the array will be numerical enumerated.

First code example

So the first example extracts an array such as:

array(1601 => '011', 1602 => '012')

Using the value 1601 as the key you get the desired output 011.

Second code example

The second example uses an array such as:

array('011' => 1601, '012' => 1602)

And searches for 1601 with array_search() to get the key 011, which is the desired output.

See these two examples for what the second and third parameters do:

print_r(array_column($array, 1, 0));
print_r(array_column($array, 0, 1));

Upvotes: 4

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