Re: Comparing string to array

On 19/06/07, Richard Davey <rich@corephp.co.uk> wrote:

    $userparam = "test['sam'][]";

    //  How to check if $userparam exists in the $_POST array
    //  and get all the values from it?

full_key_exists("test['sam'][]", $_POST) // returns true if key is set full_find_key("test['sam'][]", $_POST) // returns value of key or undef. function full_key_exists ($key, $array) { preg_match_all('/[^][]+/', $key, $branch); if (!sizeof($branch[0])) false; foreach ($branch[0] as $index) { if (!(is_array($array) && isset($array[$index]))) return false; $array = $array[$index]; } return true; } function full_find_key ($key, $array) { preg_match_all('/[^][]+/', $key, $branch); if (!sizeof($branch[0])) return; foreach ($branch[0] as $index) { if (!(is_array($array) && isset($array[$index]))) return; $array = $array[$index]; } return $array; }