How to search by key=>value in a multidimensional array in PHP

Question

Is there any fast way to get all subarrays where a key value pair was found in a multidimensional array? I can\'t say how deep the array will be.

Simple example arra

Answer 1

 array("id"=>1,"name"=>"cat 1"),
             1 => array("id"=>2,"name"=>"cat 2"),
             2 => array("id"=>3,"name"=>"cat 1")
);
$arr = array_filter($arr, function($ar) {
   return ($ar['name'] == 'cat 1');
   //return ($ar['name'] == 'cat 1' AND $ar['id'] == '3');// you can add multiple conditions
});

echo "
";
print_r($arr);

?>


Ref: http://php.net/manual/en/function.array-filter.php