Question

I have the mysql results ($date_options) as below

Array (
    [0] => stdClass Object (
        [id] => 4
        [start_date] => 2010-09-29
    )
    [1] => stdClass Object (
        [id] => 13
        [start_date] => 2010-10-06
    )
)

I need to be able to search in the “id” field if some value existed. I tried this and it didn’t work:

array_search($event_id, $date_options, true)

$event_id is has the id value. I only want to look in id and not in start_date

How to solve this?

Thanks

Answer 1

Since you’re already using MySQL, why don’t you select only the ID you are interested in? That would be more efficient than retrieving all records and then searching in PHP.

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If you still want to do it this way, you can simply iterate over the array and check manually:

foreach ($date_options as $result) {
  if ($result->id == $event_id) {
     // do something
  }
}