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

You can use array_map function which applies your custom action to each element in given array.

array_map(
    function($arr) { if ($arr['id'] == $_GET['id']) echo $arr['name']; }, 
    $locations
);

Answer 2

Doing this with PHP's built-in array functions^* avoids a foreach loop:

<?php
$locations = [["id"=>202, "name"=>"GXP Club - Fable"], ["id"=>204, "name"=>"GXP Club - Gray"]];

$col = array_search(array_column($locations, "id"), $_GET["id"]);
echo $locations[$col]["name"];

Or, using a different method:

<?php
$locations = [["id"=>202, "name"=>"GXP Club - Fable"], ["id"=>204, "name"=>"GXP Club - Gray"]];

$result = array_filter($locations, function($v){ return $v["id"] == $_GET["id"]; });
echo array_shift($result)["name"];

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Answer 3

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.

Answer 4

foreach( $locations as $arr ) {
    if($arr['id'] == $_GET['id']) {
        echo $arr['name'];
        break;
    }
}

That should do the trick.