note 40932 deleted from function.in-array by felipe

Note Submitter: fierojoe at fierojoe dot com 

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I couldn't find an easy way to search an array of associative arrays and return the key of the found associative array, so I created this little function to do it for me. Very handy for searching through the results of a mysql_fetch_assoc()

<?php

$a = array(
  array('id' => 1, 'name' => 'oranges'),
  array('id' => 2, 'name' => 'apples'),
  array('id' => 3, 'name' => 'coconuts'),
);

function _array_search($s, $a) {
  for($i=0; $i <= count($a); $i++) {
    if (in_array($s, $a[$i])) {
      return($i);
      break;
    }
  }
  return(FALSE);
}

//returns key 0 for the second element, 'id' => 1
  echo _array_search(1, $a);

//returns key 2 for the second element, 'id' => 3
  echo _array_search(3, $a);

//returns key 1 for the second element, 'id' => 2
  echo _array_search(2, $a);

?>