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Alfred
Alfred

Reputation: 21386

Finding position of data in the array - PHP

I have a PHP array, say, 

$array = Array("Name1","Name2","Name3","Name4","Name5");

I want to find the position of these names in the array.

I want to return 0 for Name1 and 2 for Name3.

How can I do this?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 143

Answers (3)

RePRO
RePRO

Reputation: 263

Something like that: 

<?php
   $array = Array("Name1", "Name2", "Name3", "Name4", "Name5");
   $searchValue = "Name1";
   $keys = array_keys($array, $searchValue);

   // test it
   print_r($keys);
?>

Upvotes: 0

Andreas Wong
Andreas Wong

Reputation: 60516

$pos = array_search("Name3", $array);

Should be what you are looking for, note that to be safe, result checking should be using === (three equal signs) so that those returning 0 (if you are looking for thing in the first element) is also checked for type when you are comparing them in an if statement

if(array_search($name, $array) === 0)

Upvotes: 0

Sudhir Bastakoti
Sudhir Bastakoti

Reputation: 100175

Do you mean:


$key = array_search('Name1', $array);

Ref: array_search

Upvotes: 1

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