Searching Arrays Values for Needle

[firemike]

Hi All,

 

I have an exploded array, what I need to do is search for the key(s) which contain my search criteria.

So basically, array_search but I don't want to put in the entire value of a key, just part of it.

 

so if an array was:

0=> test1 is awesome

1=> test2 is better

2=> test3 is best

 

I want to search for "best" and get 2 returned. Searching for "awe" should return 0 etc.

 

Is there a function that just searches an entire array for a searchstring? Or do I need to get a loop happening and search each array key individually.

 

Thanks guys,

Mike

[trq]

Is there a function that just searches an entire array for a searchstring? Or do I need to get a loop happening and search each array key individually.

 

If your search is intended to find a match within an array value and not an entire value, you'll need a custom function. Something like...

 

<?php

  function findinarrayvalue($arr,$str) {
    $return = 0;
    foreach ($arr as $val) {
      if (strpos($val,$str)) {
        $return++;
      }
    }
    return $return;
  }

?>

should go pretty close.