I am trying to search for the value in a column of a 2d array. My array structure is:
[
2 => ["HEADER"],
3 => ["ACCESSION #", "F4216027"],
4 => ["ACTIVATION CODE", "PGMWZ-PUSUU"],
5 => ["CUSTOMER FIRST NAME","JAMES"]
]
If I am trying to search "CUSTOMER FIRST NAME"
. I tried with below function, but with no result.
function searchForValue($id, $array) {
foreach ($array as $key => $val) {
if ($val[0] === $id) {
return $key;
}
}
return null;
}
And expected output is the key of parent index: [5]
Simple solution using foreach
and in_array
function:
$search_word = "CUSTOMER FIRST NAME";
$parent_key = null;
// $arr is your initial array
foreach ($arr as $k => $v) {
if (in_array($search_word, $v)) $parent_key = $k;
}
print_r($parent_key); // 5