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.

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Answer 1

This is a revised function from the one that John K. posted... I need to grab only the specific key in the array and nothing above it.

function search_array ( $array, $key, $value )
{
    $results = array();

    if ( is_array($array) )
    {
        if ( $array[$key] == $value )
        {
            $results[] = $array;
        } else {
            foreach ($array as $subarray) 
                $results = array_merge( $results, $this->search_array($subarray, $key, $value) );
        }
    }

    return $results;
}

$arr = array(0 => array(id=>1,name=>"cat 1"),
       1 => array(id=>2,name=>"cat 2"),
       2 => array(id=>3,name=>"cat 1"));

print_r(search_array($arr, 'name', 'cat 1'));