Question

How would something like this be possible:

I have an object called Player:

class Player
{
  public $name;
  public $lvl;
}

and I have an array of these players in: $array.

For example $array[4]->name = 'Bob';

I want to search $array for a player named “Bob”.

Without knowing the array key, how would I search $array for a Player named “Bob” so that it returns the key #? For example it should return 4.

Would array_search() work in this case? How would it be formatted?

Answer 1

Using array_filter will return you a new array with only the matching keys.

$playerName = 'bob';
$bobs = array_filter($players, function($player) use ($playerName) {
    return $player->name === $playerName;
});