Question

I’ve got an array like this

array
  2 => string 'Member forum 1'
  5 => string 'Member forum 5'
  8 => string 'Moderator forum 8'
  9 => string 'Member forum 9'

I would like to write a script that, once it hits the Moderator-tag, stops looking for the tag and continue with a variable which contains true or something alike for which I can tell a user is a Moderator on any form of just a normal member.

I have been experimenting with in_array and preg_match but everytime I end up with a false result, cause the last item of the array (Member forum 9) overwrites the true value of the last but one value (Moderator forum 8).

Here is my try. $user_roles being the array mentionned above.

$user_roles = $user->roles;

foreach($user_roles as $value) {
    if(preg_match('Moderator', $value)) {
        var_dump('yep, moderator');
        break;
    } elseif(preg_match('Redacteur', $value)) {
        var_dump('jep, redacteur');
        break;
    } else {
        var_dump('nope');
    }
}

Answer 1

Try something like this?

$arr = array(...);
$found = false;
foreach($arr as $item)
{
    if( stripos($item, 'moderator') !== false)
    {
        $found = $item;
        break;
    }
}

if($found)
{
    //$found is the word.
}

If there could be more than 1 possible match and you have to process every match:

foreach($arr as $item)
{
    if( stripos($item, 'moderator') !== false)
    {
        $roles = explode(' ',trim($item));
        $role = trim(strtolower($roles[0]));
        switch($role)
        {
             case 'moderator': 
                  //do something
                  break;
             case 'moderator1':
                  //another thing
                  break;
             case ....
        }       
    }
}