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Finding Items in an Array with PHP

0 Comments Published by Steven 4 years, 4 months ago in Basics and PHP

The problem: we have an array of items in PHP and we want to find out if a specific item is in the array. In code we can define the array as:

IE we have an array called $fruitBasket which contains 5 strings, each of which is the name of a fruit. We want to find out if there is an Apple in the $fruitBasket - is there an element "Apple" in the array?
We do this with the following code:

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PHP:

<?
// create an array of strings called $fruitBasket:
$fruitBasket = array( "Apple", "Orange", "Mango", "Lemon", "Pear" );
// use the in_array() function to check if "Apple" is in the array:
if( in_array("Apple", $fruitBasket) )
{
echo "Apple is in the array";
}
else
{
echo "Apple is not in the array";
}
?>

This code uses the in_array() method to check if the element "Apple" exists in the array $fruitBasket:
in_array("Apple", $fruitBasket)

in_array() takes two parameters here: firstly the object we're looking for, in this case "Apple", and secondly the array which we're looking in, $fruitBasket. It then returns a boolean value: true if "Apple" is in the array, or false if it isn't.

References: php.net manual: in_array() function

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