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<h1>Array Helper<a class="headerlink" href="#array-helper" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h1>
<p>The array helper provides several functions to simplify more complex usages of arrays. It is not intended to duplicate
any of the existing functionality that PHP provides - unless it is to vastly simplify their usage.</p>
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<li><a class="reference internal" href="#loading-this-helper" id="id1">Loading this Helper</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#available-functions" id="id2">Available Functions</a></li>
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<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id1">Loading this Helper</a><a class="headerlink" href="#loading-this-helper" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>This helper is loaded using the following code:</p>
<div class="highlight-ci"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="nx">helper</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">&#39;array&#39;</span><span class="p">);</span>
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<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id2">Available Functions</a><a class="headerlink" href="#available-functions" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>The following functions are available:</p>
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<dt id="dot_array_search">
<code class="descname">dot_array_search</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>string $search</em>, <em>array $values</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#dot_array_search" title="Permalink to this definition"></a></dt>
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<tr class="field-odd field"><th class="field-name">Parameters:</th><td class="field-body"><ul class="first simple">
<li><strong>$search</strong> (<em>string</em>) &#8211; The dot-notation string describing how to search the array</li>
<li><strong>$values</strong> (<em>array</em>) &#8211; The array to search</li>
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<tr class="field-even field"><th class="field-name">Returns:</th><td class="field-body"><p class="first">The value found within the array, or null</p>
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<p>This method allows you to use dot-notation to search through an array for a specific-key,
and allows the use of a the &#8216;*&#8217; wildcard. Given the following array:</p>
<div class="highlight-ci"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="nv">$data</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">[</span>
<span class="s1">&#39;foo&#39;</span> <span class="o">=&gt;</span> <span class="p">[</span>
<span class="s1">&#39;buzz&#39;</span> <span class="o">=&gt;</span> <span class="p">[</span>
<span class="s1">&#39;fizz&#39;</span> <span class="o">=&gt;</span> <span class="mi">11</span>
<span class="p">],</span>
<span class="s1">&#39;bar&#39;</span> <span class="o">=&gt;</span> <span class="p">[</span>
<span class="s1">&#39;baz&#39;</span> <span class="o">=&gt;</span> <span class="mi">23</span>
<span class="p">]</span>
<span class="p">]</span>
<span class="p">]</span>
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<p>We can locate the value of &#8216;fizz&#8217; by using the search string &#8220;foo.buzz.fizz&#8221;. Likewise, the value
of baz can be found with &#8220;foo.bar.baz&#8221;:</p>
<div class="highlight-ci"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="c1">// Returns: 11</span>
<span class="nv">$fizz</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="nx">dot_array_search</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">&#39;foo.buzz.fizz&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="nv">$data</span><span class="p">);</span>
<span class="c1">// Returns: 23</span>
<span class="nv">$baz</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="nx">dot_array_search</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">&#39;foo.bar.baz&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="nv">$data</span><span class="p">);</span>
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<p>You can use the asterisk as a wildcard to replace any of the segments. When found, it will search through all
of the child nodes until it finds it. This is handy if you don&#8217;t know the values, or if your values
have a numeric index:</p>
<div class="highlight-ci"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="c1">// Returns: 23</span>
<span class="nv">$baz</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="nx">dot_array_search</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">&#39;foo.*.baz&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="nv">$data</span><span class="p">);</span>
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