How to find record in array that meets multiple comparisons

[brentman]

I am building a bid function that will display the best available ad inventory to the current user.

 

I have a record for user like so:

 

$user_record = interest, gender, country

 

I am then pulling all available records to array for available ad inventory to find all eligible ads:

 

$ad_array = budget, interest, gender, country (for a whole table)

 

So I want to only pull those with remaining budget (ie like $budget>$.50), if interest is set, only if interest = interest, if gender is set, only if gender = gender, if country is set, only if country=country

 

Now there may be 1 or there may be 20 or more ad campaigns in the array. But I want to remove the ones that do not fit certain rules.

 

//GETS THE USER RECORD
$result = mysql_query("SELECT user_record FROM usertable WHERE user_record = '$user_record'");
$row = mysql_fetch_row($result);

//GETS ALL AD CAMPAIGNS
$query = "SELECT * FROM campaigns";
$result = mysql_query($query);

//MAKES ARRAY FOR ONLY ELIGIBLE CAMPAIGNS
?????

So what code to I put for the ?????? that will remove ad campaigns that are not eligible, leaving only eligible campaigns in the array?

Edited September 13, 2013 by brentman

[brentman]

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