Find value of sibling key in php array

Question

I have an array in PHP, here is a snippet:

$locations = array(
    array(
        \"id\" => 202,
        \"name\" => \"GXP Club - Fable\"
    ),

    a         


        

Answer 1

While looping over the array is the solution for the problem as described, it seems more optimal to change your array to be $id=>$name key-value pairs, instead of named key values if that's all the data in the array, e.g.:

$locations = array( '202' => 'GXP Club - Fable',
                    '204' => 'GXP Club - Gray',
             )

Alternatively, if there's more data, I'd switch to a nested data structure, e.g.:

$locations = array( '202' => array( 'name' => 'GXP Club - Fable', 'prop2' =>$prop2, etc),      
                    '204' => array( 'name' => 'GXP Club - Gray', 'prop2' =>$prop2, etc),
             )

That makes it so you can access data via ID (e.g. $locations[$id]['name']), which seems to be what you'd generally be wanting to do.