Determine if any row in a 2d array has a qualifying column value

I have this array:

$fruits = [
    ['name' => 'banana', 'color' => 'yellow' , 'shape' => 'cylinder'],
    ['name' => 'apple', 'color' => 'red' , 'shape' => 'sphere'],
    ['name' => 'orange', 'color' => 'orange' , 'shape' => 'sphere'], 
];

How can I find out if the array $fruits already contains apple in it?

I have tried: in_array("apple", $fruits) and that didn't work out.

I also tried various syntax and messed a bit with array_key_exists(), but nothing worked out. Any ideas?

PHP is notoriously unwieldy in such cases. The best all-around solution is a simple foreach:

$found = false;
foreach ($fruits as $fruit) {
    if ($fruit['name'] == 'apple') {
        $found = true;
        break;
    }
}

if ($found) ....

You can write this in a number of sexier ways, but all of them will require additional memory allocation and/or will be slower; a good number of them will also be more difficult to understand if you are not very experienced.