I know this was already answered, but I used this and extended it a little more in my code so that you didn't have search by only the uid. I just want to share it for anyone else who may need that functionality.
Here's my example and please bare in mind this is my first answer. I took out the param array because I only needed to search one specific array, but you could easily add it in. I wanted to essentially search by more than just the uid.
Also, in my situation there may be multiple keys to return as a result of searching by other fields that may not be unique.
/**
* @param array multidimensional
* @param string value to search for, ie a specific field name like name_first
* @param string associative key to find it in, ie field_name
*
* @return array keys.
*/
function search_revisions($dataArray, $search_value, $key_to_search) {
// This function will search the revisions for a certain value
// related to the associative key you are looking for.
$keys = array();
foreach ($dataArray as $key => $cur_value) {
if ($cur_value[$key_to_search] == $search_value) {
$keys[] = $key;
}
}
return $keys;
}
Later, I ended up writing this to allow me to search for another value and associative key. So my first example allows you to search for a value in any specific associative key, and return all the matches.
This second example shows you where a value ('Taylor') is found in a certain associative key (first_name) AND another value (true) is found in another associative key (employed), and returns all matches (Keys where people with first name 'Taylor' AND are employed).
/**
* @param array multidimensional
* @param string $search_value The value to search for, ie a specific 'Taylor'
* @param string $key_to_search The associative key to find it in, ie first_name
* @param string $other_matching_key The associative key to find in the matches for employed
* @param string $other_matching_value The value to find in that matching associative key, ie true
*
* @return array keys, ie all the people with the first name 'Taylor' that are employed.
*/
function search_revisions($dataArray, $search_value, $key_to_search, $other_matching_value = null, $other_matching_key = null) {
// This function will search the revisions for a certain value
// related to the associative key you are looking for.
$keys = array();
foreach ($dataArray as $key => $cur_value) {
if ($cur_value[$key_to_search] == $search_value) {
if (isset($other_matching_key) && isset($other_matching_value)) {
if ($cur_value[$other_matching_key] == $other_matching_value) {
$keys[] = $key;
}
} else {
// I must keep in mind that some searches may have multiple
// matches and others would not, so leave it open with no continues.
$keys[] = $key;
}
}
}
return $keys;
}
Use of function
$data = array(
array(
'cust_group' => 6,
'price' => 13.21,
'price_qty' => 5
),
array(
'cust_group' => 8,
'price' => 15.25,
'price_qty' => 4
),
array(
'cust_group' => 8,
'price' => 12.75,
'price_qty' => 10
)
);
$findKey = search_revisions($data,'8', 'cust_group', '10', 'price_qty');
print_r($findKey);
Result
Array ( [0] => 2 )
array_columnone-liner answers. I modified them all to return the actual discovered array, not just the key, because usually that's my use case. The function method scored 0.361, search-col 0.184 and keys-col 0.189 average micro delay over 1000 runs for each method. – Josh