Question

I have an array like this.

  $flds = array("fn", "ln", "em");

I have another associative array like this. this is dynamically returned from JSON POST.

  $ret = array("fn" => "xyz", "ln" => "abc", "em" => "s.2", "another" => "123")

I want to search if the first array is existing in the 2nd array.
I did this:

  if ( in_array( $flds, array_keys($ret))) 
      echo "exists";
  else 
      echo "does not";

It always returns “does not”. When I print, $flds and array_keys($ret), both look exactly same.

Anything wrong here?

Answer 1

That code is looking for the entire $flds array to be a value in $ret;

You’ll probably want to use array_intersect() and then check the length of the result.