Access Multidimensional Array element with out knowing parent elements

Question

I have function that returns the following multidimensional array. I don\'t have control of how the array is formed. Im trying to access the \'Result\' elements. This issue

Answer 1

An easy option to search the array keys/values recursively is to use a recursive iterator; these are built-in classes, part of the Standard PHP Library.

$result   = false;
$iterator = new RecursiveIteratorIterator(new RecursiveArrayIterator($array));
foreach ($iterator as $key => $value) {
    if ($key === 'Result') {
        $result = $value;
        break;
    }
}

var_dump($result);

The bonus here is that you could, if you wanted to, check the depth of the Result item ($iterator->getDepth()) in the array structure and/or check one or more ancestor keys ($iterator->getSubIterator(…)->key()).