[SOLVED] Getting the numeric value in an array with only strings

[Dale_G]

Hello everyone, long time no post...but anyway, I have a little problem here, which probably has a very easy solution, see if you can help me out here...

 

This is an array.

 

$fruits = array( 'apples', 'oranges', 'bananas', 'pineapples' );

 

And, obviously I can access "apples" by

 

$fruits[0];

 

And that's alright. But, how can I get it's numeric value just from the string? Ex.

 

If I enter apples I want 0 returned, if I enter bananas I want 2 returned, etc. If that makes sense, getting the numeric position based on the array value.

[Dale_G]

Without the use of keys if I may add, just a plain ol' array!

[trq]

$key = array_keys($fruits,'apples');

[Dale_G]

Right, that works!

 

When I said without the use of keys I meant like, keys in the actual array ( 'apple' => 0 ), this is great, thank you thorpe!