Question

I have a big array with some of the elements are arrays.

Some of the elements and sub-elements are , Let’s say, “forbbidden names”.

Now, if I input a name that is one of the forbbidden names, I want to make it invalid.

My question is– how to get an array of “forbbidden names”?

Answer 1

you are a bit unclear, I assume you want to extract the forbidden names and check the input against it.

            function getForbiddenNames($array){

                $output = array();
                foreach( $array as $key=>$value) {

                if(is_array($value)) //recursive call
                    array_merge($output , getForbiddenNames($value));

                else if(isForbidden($value)) 
                   array_push($output , $value);

    }

if(in_array($input, getForbiddenNames($corpus))
return 'catch!' ;