I'm struggling to explain what I want to do here so apologies if I confuse you.. I'm just as confused myself
I have an array like so:
$foo = array(
array('value' => 5680, 'text' => 'Red'),
array('value' => 7899, 'text' => 'Green'),
array('value' => 9968, 'text' => 'Blue'),
array('value' => 4038, 'text' => 'Yellow'),
)
I want to check if the array contains the value e.g. 7899 and also get the text linked to that value "Green" in the example above.
Try something like this
$foo = array(
array('value' => 5680, 'text' => 'Red'),
array('value' => 7899, 'text' => 'Green'),
array('value' => 9968, 'text' => 'Blue'),
array('value' => 4038, 'text' => 'Yellow'),
);
$found = current(array_filter($foo, function($item) {
return isset($item['value']) && 7899 == $item['value'];
}));
print_r($found);
Which outputs
Array
(
[value] => 7899
[text] => Green
)
The key here is array_filter. If the search value 7899 is not static then you could bring it in to the closure with something like function($item) use($searchValue). Note that array_filter is returning an array of elements which is why I pass it through current
$found = current(array_filter($activityArray, function($item) use($jobID) { return isset($item['jobid']) && $jobID == $item['jobid']; })); print_r($found);For PHP >= 5.5.0 it is easier with array_column:
echo array_column($foo, 'text', 'value')[7899];
Or to be repeatable without using array_column each time:
$bar = array_column($foo, 'text', 'value');
echo isset($bar[7899]) ? $bar[7899] : 'NOT FOUND!';
Taking a guess at what you would like here:
function findTextByValueInArray($fooArray, $searchValue){
foreach ($fooArray as $bar )
{
if ($bar['value'] == $searchValue) {
return $bar['text'];
}
}
}
