Req #55389 [Com]: Feature suggestion for array_search

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=55389&edit=1 ID: 55389 Comment by: laruence@php.net Reported by: pgreviews at gmail dot com Summary: Feature suggestion for array_search Status: Open Type: Feature/Change Request Package: Arrays related Operating System: Ubuntu Linux PHP Version: Irrelevant Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: Hi, this should be a bogus. array_search does not search recursively. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2011-08-09 23:26:04] pgreviews at gmail dot com Description: ------------ --- From manual page: http://www.php.net/function.array-search --- Hello! I am trying to create a simple function to check whether to show an image or display the contents of a file. If the input is an image-type, show it as an image, and if it's text-type, show it's source code. I figured the best way to do this was to grab the file extension, and work from there. Here's my code: ---------- $filetypes=array( "text" => array("txt","php","xml","html","htm","cgi"), "image" => array("png","jpg","jpeg","svg","bmp") ); $type=array_search("png",$filetypes); echo $type; ---------- Basically, I want it to return 'image', in this case, because the supplied input 'png' is in the 'image' key. However, array_search doesn't check arrays within arrays. If array_search could possibly be updated to provide a search within multidimensional arrays, that would be fantastic! Thanks! -Scott (pgreviews@gmail.com) Test script: --------------- //Filetypes array, one key for text and one key for image extensions (shortened) $filetypes=array( "text" => array("txt","php","xml","html","htm","cgi"), "image" => array("png","jpg","jpeg","svg","bmp") ); //Look through the array for 'png', and return it's respective key. Then echo it. echo $type=array_search("png",$filetypes); Expected result: ---------------- I expect it to return 'image'. Actual result: -------------- (null, no output) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=55389&edit=1