Re: Array Question

On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 09:46 +0100, Robin Vickery wrote: > On 11/07/07, kvigor <k3cheese@insightbb.com> wrote: > > Is there a php function similar to in_array that can detect if a "partial > > value" is in an array value or not: > > > > e.g. > > > > $var1 = " big horse"; $var2 = " small yellow"; $var3 = " > > red hydrant"; > > > > $theArray = array(big blue horse, small yellow bird, giant red hydrant); > > > > Is there a way to find out if $var1 in $theArray or $var2 etc.? > > There's not a built in function, but it's not hard to write one: > > function partial_in_array($needle, $haystack) { > if (!is_array($needle)) { $needle = array($needle); } You can reduce the above statement to the following: $needle = (array)$needle; Conversion to array creates an array with one element... the value converted. Cheers, Rob. -- ........................................................... SwarmBuy.com - http://www.swarmbuy.com Leveraging the buying power of the masses! ...........................................................