PHP Array Type?

[ShoeLace1291]

Is there a way to find out what the array type is?

 

Example:

$array1 = array('red', 'pizza', '14');
$array2 = array('color' => 'red', 'food' => 'pizza', 'age' => '14');

if(is_recursive($array1)){
     return TRUE;
} else if(is_multidimensional($array2){
     return TRUE;
} else {
     return FALSE;
}

[trq]

There is always a way. You would however need to write these functions yourself.

 

I'm not sure what the difference between is_recursive() & is_multidimensional() would be though, they sound like there pretty much describing the same thing.

[ignace]

I second what thorpe said but your function is_recursive() makes no sense at all. You can iterate recursively through an array but that doesn't make the array recursive just multi-dimensional.