Reference PHP array by multiple indexes

Question

This may be some sort of weird longer shortcut, and please correct me if I\'m mistaken in this train of thought...

I have a matrix of data that looks like:

Answer 1

Surely an object would be the easy way?

class Item {
    public $unique_url;
    public $url;
    public $other_data;

    public function __construct($unique_url, $url, $other_data)
    {
        $this->unique_url = $unique_url;
        $this->url = $url;
        $this->other_data = $other_data;
    }
}



class ItemArray {
    private $items = array();

    public function __construct()
    {
    }

    public function push(Item $item)
    {
        array_push($items, $item); //These may need to be reversed
    }

    public function getByURL($url)
    {
        foreach($items as $item)
        {
            if($item->url = $url)
            {
                return $item;
            }
        }
    }

    public function getByUniqueURL($url)
    {
        foreach($items as $item)
        {
            if($item->unique_url = $unique_url)
            {
                return $item;
            }
        }
    }

}

Then use it with

$itemArray = new ItemArray();
$item = new Item("someURL", "someUniqueURL","some other crap");
$itemArray->push($item);

$retrievedItem = $itemArray->getItemByURL("someURL");

This technique has a little extra overhead due to object creation, but unless you're doing insane numbers of rows it would be fine.