Question

I was wondering if anyone could show me how to search this array that is in a session and see if it contains a value. I have posted the code below.

Thanks you.

$stack = array ('hello', 'world', 'where', 'are', 'money', 'chicken', 'run');

$_SESSION['user'] = $stack;
 if($_SESSION['user'] does not contain('myname')){
     echo 'no name';
   }

Answer 1

Use in_array() function

Searches haystack for needle using loose comparison unless strict is set.

example:

if(!in_array('myname', $_SESSION['user']))
{
    //code to be executed if 'myname' is not in the array
}

else
{
    //code to be executed if 'myname' is in the array
}

Also, might i suggest you just do it like this?

session_start();

$_SESSION['user'] = array('hello', 'world', 'where', 'are', 'money', 'chicken', 'run');  

if(!in_array('myname', $_SESSION['user']))
{
    //code to be executed if 'myname' is not in the array
}

else
{
    //code to be executed if 'myname' is in the array
}