Question

I am looking for an efficient way to pull the data I want out of an array called $submission_info so I can easily auto-fill my form fields. The array size is about 120.

I want to find the field name and extract the content. In this case, the field name is loanOfficer and the content is John Doe.

Output of Print_r($submission_info[1]):  Array (       [field_id] => 2399       [form_id] => 4       [field_name] => loanOfficer       [field_test_value] => ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ       [field_size] => medium       [field_type] => other       [data_type] => string       [field_title] => LoanOfficer       [col_name] => loanOfficer       [list_order] => 2       [admin_display] => yes       [is_sortable] => yes       [include_on_redirect] => yes       [option_orientation] => vertical       [file_upload_dir] =>       [file_upload_url] =>       [file_upload_max_size] => 1000000       [file_upload_types] =>       [content] => John Doe       )  

I want to find the field name and extract the content. In this case, the field name is loanOfficer and the content is John Doe.

Answer 1

You’re probably best off going through each entry and creating a new associative array out of it.

foreach($submission_info as $elem) {     $newarray[$elem['field_name']] = $elem['content']; } 

Then you can just find the form fields by getting the value from $newarray[<field you’re filling in>]. Otherwise, you’re going to have to search $submission_info each time for the correct field.