Question

I’m new to working with arrays so I need some help. With getting just one vaule from an array. I have an original array that looks like this:

 $array1= Array(   
     [0] => 1_31   
     [1] => 1_65  
     [2] => 29_885...)

What I’m trying to do is seach for and return just the value after the underscore. I’ve figured out how to get that data into a second array and return the vaules as a new array.

    foreach($array1 as $key => $value){
    $id = explode('_',$value);
}

which gives me:

Array ( [0] => 1  [1] => 31 ) 
Array ( [0] => 1  [1] => 65 ) 
Array ( [0] => 29 [1] => 885 )

I can also get a list of the id’s or part after the underscore by using $id[1] I’m just not sure if this is the best way and if it is how to do a search. I’ve tried using in_array() but that searches the whole array and I couldn’t make it just search one key of the array.

Any help would be great.

Answer 1

If the part after underscore is unique, make it a key for new array:

$newArray = array();
foreach($array1 as $key => $value){
    list($v,$k) = explode('_',$value);
    $newArray[$k] = $v;
}

So you can check for key existence with isset($newArray[$mykey]), which will be more efficient.