Question

I have deleted the old post to make this more clear. I have 2 arrays that I need to compare and match but only if 2 values per array are the same.

$array1 = $plugins
$array2 = $xml_dump

A sample of what both arrays look like:

$plugins 

Array
(
    [all] => Array
        (
            [ajax-category-dropdown/dhat-ajax-cat-dropdown.php] => Array
                (
                    [Name] => Ajax Category Dropdown
                    [PluginURI] => http://www.example.com/ajax/
                    [Version] => 0.1.5
                    [Description] => Generates multi-level ajax. 
                    [Author] => DyasonHat
                    [AuthorURI] => http://www.dyasonhat.com
                    [Title] => Ajax Category Dropdown
                    [AuthorName] => Dya
                )

            [akismet/akismet.php] => Array
                (
                    [Name] => Akismet
                    [PluginURI] => http://akismet.com/
                    [Version] => 2.5.3
                    [Description] => Used by millions
                    [Author] => Automattic
                    [AuthorURI] => http://automattic.com/
                    [Title] => Akismet
                    [AuthorName] => Automattic
                )


$xml_dump
SimpleXMLElement Object
(
    [plugin] => Array
        (
            [0] => SimpleXMLElement Object
                (
                    [name] => Ajax Category Dropdown
                    [ex_version] => 0.1.5
                    [ex_date] => 2008-01-03
                    [plugin_url] => http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-contactform/
                    [advisory_url] => http://osvdb.org/show/osvdb/43284
                )

            [1] => SimpleXMLElement Object
                (
                    [name] => WP-ContactForm
                    [ex_version] => 2.0.7
                    [ex_date] => 2008-01-03
                    [plugin_url] => http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-contactform/
                    [advisory_url] => http://osvdb.org/show/osvdb/43284
                )

            [2] => SimpleXMLElement Object
                (
                    [name] => Math Comment Spam Protection
                    [ex_version] => 2.1
                    [ex_date] => 2008-01-03
                    [plugin_url] => http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/math-comment-spam-protection/
                    [advisory_url] => a
                )

I need it to return the value ( or return true) only if $array1 Name , Version matches $array2 name ,ex_version

In the example above you can see that

$array1
Name => Ajax Category Dropdown
Version => 0.1.5

///has a match in 

$array2
name => Ajax Category Dropdown
ex_version => 0.1.5

I have tried many variations of array_intersect but I cannot get it to match 2 values for each array.

Answer 1

Just wanted to close this with what ended up being my solution.

I grab the Name and Version for both arrays and created a new array for each one, that way I could easily use array_intersect and manipulate they arrays. So to get this to work I just needed to create two new arrays with the values I wanted to compare.

 $a = array();
 $b = array();

 //first foreach loop

 $find_local_plugs = $global_plugins_name . $plugin_version;
 $a[] = $find_local_plugs;

 //second foreach loop

 $find_remote_plugs = $xml_plugins . $xml_plugin_version;
 $b[] = $find_remote_plugs;


 $matches = array_intersect($a, $b);