Searching an array

[zevious]

I have an array:
$lst[$aa]=array("T"=>$title,"I"=>$ititle,
"M"=>$mtitle,"Y"=>$year,"O"=>$other,"A"=>$paa);

I need to search the array later in the code and find a title in the "A" field. This is part loop. I am hoping to avoid using a foreach loop to do the search. Is there some easier more effecient way to do this?

TIA!

[Anon]

function array_search ($needle, $haystack, $strict = FALSE)
{
if(!in_array($needle, $haystack))
{
return FALSE;
}

foreach (array_keys($haystack) as $key)
{ 
	if ($strict) 
	{
		if ($haystack[$key] === $needle)
		{
			return $key;
		}
	} 
	else
	{ 
		if ($haystack[$key] == $needle)
		{
			return $key;
		}
	} 
} 

return FALSE; 

}

[Anon]

Didn't do an explanation =) About the only speed increase I could think of would be to put in that in_array check, although that might not even be an increase b/c (although I haven't looked at the hard code behind it) I would assume that it loops through the array as well (just a bit faster since its compiled etc). Havent done any speed checks or anything like that though so no promises.

Happy Coding,
Kris

[zevious]

Thank you for the response. I finally got back to this problem. I tried your code but array_search doesn't return anything?