search associative array by value

Question

I\'m fetching some JSON from flickrs API. My problem is that the exif data is in different order depending on the camera. So I can\'t hard-code an array number to get, for i

Answer 1

The following function, searches in an associative array both for string values and values inside other arrays. For example , given the following array

 $array= [  "one" => ["a","b"],
            "two" => "c" ];

the following function can find both a,b and c as well

 function search_assoc($value, $array){
         $result = false;
         foreach ( $array as $el){
             if (!is_array($el)){
                 $result = $result||($el==$value);
             }
             else if (in_array($value,$el))
                 $result= $result||true;
             else $result= $result||false;
         }
         return $result;
     }