Re: Array Question

On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 16:07 +0100, Stut wrote: > Robert Cummings wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 15:52 +0100, Stut wrote: > >> Robert Cummings wrote: > >>> 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. > >> Without raising a notice? > > > > Yep. > > Excellent. Don't you just love PHP. Certainly do :) Cheers, Rob. -- ........................................................... SwarmBuy.com - http://www.swarmbuy.com Leveraging the buying power of the masses! ...........................................................