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Jason Ayer
Jason Ayer

Reputation: 597

Search multidimensional array and returning specific value from that array

I cannot for the life of me figure out how to search through a multidimensional array for a key => value pair, and then either A) Return the array it belongs to or a different specific key => value pair that exists in the same array.

My array is:

$pages = array(
    array(
        'pageId' => 10,
        'title' => 'Welcome',
        'theme' => 'basic'
    ),
    array(
        'pageId' => 11,
        'title' => 'Home',
        'theme' => 'basic'
    ),
    array(
        'pageId' => 12,
        'title' => 'Login',
        'theme' => 'basic'
    )
);

I've tried 

$theme = array_search(10, array_column($search, 'pageId'));

but it keeps returning an int and not the value basic as I am wanting.

I would like either just the value or an array with the key => value pair or the whole array it belongs to.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 89

Answers (2)

LF-DevJourney
LF-DevJourney

Reputation: 28529

You can use array_filter, live demo.

array_filter($array, function($v) use($searchKey, $searchValue) {
  return $v[$searchKey]  == $searchValue;
});

Upvotes: 0

Sahil Gulati
Sahil Gulati

Reputation: 15141

Try this simplest one, hope this will be helpful. Here we are using array_column

Try this code snippet here

$result=array_column($pages,"theme" ,'pageId');
if(isset($result[$toSearch]))
{
    echo $result[$toSearch];
}

Upvotes: 3

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