Question

I am trying to find values inside an array. This array always starts with 0.
unfortunately array_search start searching with the array element 1.
So the first element is always overlooked.

How could I “shift” this array to start with 1, or make array-search start with 0? The array comes out of an XML web service, so I can not rally modify the results.

Answer 1

See the manual, it might help you:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.array-search.php

If what you’re trying to do is use increase the key by one, you can do:

function my_array_search($needle, $haystack, $strict=false) {
     $key = array_search($needle, $haystack, $strict);
     if (is_integer($key)) $key++;
     return $key;
}
my_array_search($xml_service_array);