in_array() and multidimensional array

Question

I use in_array() to check whether a value exists in an array like below,

$a = array(\"Mac\", \"NT\", \"Irix\", \"Linux\");
if (in_array(\"Irix\"         


        

Answer 1

Great function, but it didnt work for me until i added the if($found) { break; } to the elseif

function in_array_r($needle, $haystack) {
    $found = false;
    foreach ($haystack as $item) {
    if ($item === $needle) { 
            $found = true; 
            break; 
        } elseif (is_array($item)) {
            $found = in_array_r($needle, $item); 
            if($found) { 
                break; 
            } 
        }    
    }
    return $found;
}