note 41969 deleted from function.array-search by felipe

Note Submitter: manicdepressive at mindless dot com ---- <?php /** recursively descend an arbitrarily deep multidimensional array, stopping at the first occurence of scalar $needle. return the path to $needle as an array (list) of keys if not found, return null. (will infinitely recurse on self-referential structures) */ function array_search_recursive( $needle, $haystack ) { $path = NULL; $keys = array_keys($haystack); while (!$path && (list($toss,$k)=each($keys))) { $v = $haystack[$k]; if (is_scalar($v)) { if ($v===$needle) { $path = array($k); } } elseif (is_array($v)) { if ($path=array_search_recursive( $needle, $v )) { array_unshift($path,$k); } } } return $path; } ?> code till dawn! -mark meves