Re: Array Question

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On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 16:07 +0100, Stut wrote:
> Robert Cummings wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 15:52 +0100, Stut wrote:
> >> Robert Cummings wrote:
> >>> On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 09:46 +0100, Robin Vickery wrote:
> >>>> On 11/07/07, kvigor <k3cheese@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>>>> Is there a php function similar to in_array that can detect if a "partial
> >>>>> value" is in an array value or not:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> e.g.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> $var1 = " big horse";    $var2 = " small yellow";    $var3 = " red hydrant";
> >>>>>
> >>>>> $theArray = array(big blue horse, small yellow bird, giant red hydrant);
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Is there a way to find out if $var1 in $theArray or $var2 etc.?
> >>>> There's not a built in function, but it's not hard to write one:
> >>>>
> >>>> function partial_in_array($needle, $haystack) {
> >>>>   if (!is_array($needle)) { $needle = array($needle); }
> >>> You can reduce the above statement to the following:
> >>>
> >>>     $needle = (array)$needle;
> >>>
> >>> Conversion to array creates an array with one element... the value
> >>> converted.
> >> Without raising a notice?
> > 
> > Yep.
> 
> Excellent. Don't you just love PHP.

Certainly do :)

Cheers,
Rob.
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