Retrieving correct record from multidimentional array - php

Question

I'm having a mental freeze moment. If I have an array in the following format:
$myData = Array
(
[0] => stdClass Object
(
[id] => 1
[busID] => 5
[type] => SMS
[number] => 5128888888
)
[1] => stdClass Object
(
[id] => 2
[busID] => 5
[type] => APP
[number] => 5125555555
)
[2] => stdClass Object
(
[id] => 4
[busID] => 5
[type] => APP
[number] => 5129999988
[verified] => 1
[default] => 0
)
)
And I only have an var for ID of the record, how do I retrieve the rest of the detail for that set.
$myID = 2;
// get number 5125555555 and it's type
echo $myData[][$myID]['number']; // ???

Answer 1

The way you have your data arranged your going to have to loop through your array to identify the object corresponding to $myID.
foreach($myData as $object) if($object->id == $myID) echo $object->number;
The alternative is to arrange your $myData as an associative array with the id field as the key. Then you could access it simply with $myData[$myID]->number.

Answer 2

Actually it's an array that contains StdClass objects , try looping over $myData and access each attribute :
foreach ( $myData as $data )
{
print_r($data->id);
// ...
}

Answer 3

You can avoid loop by using following logic:
<?php
$myID = 2;
$myData = json_decode(json_encode($myData),1); // Convert Object to Array
$id_arr = array_column($myData, 'id'); // Create an array with All Ids
$idx = array_search($myID, $id_arr);
if($idx !== false)
{
echo $myData[$idx]['type'] . ' -- ' . $myData[$idx]['number'];
}
?>
Working Demo
Note: array_column is supported from PHP 5.5.
For lower versions you can use this beautiful library https://github.com/ramsey/array_column/blob/master/src/array_column.php

Answer 4

You can create a custom function to achieve this, you need to pass the array and id whose details you want and the function will return the array with matching id, like below
function detailsById($myData,$id){
foreach($myData as $data){
if($data->id == $id){
return $data;
}
}
}
Just call this function with your array and id..
$data=detailsById($myData,2);
echo "<pre>";print_r($data);
This will give you :
stdClass Object
(
[id] => 2
[busID] => 5
[type] => APP
[number] => 5125555555
)
And further to print 'number' and 'type' use $data array
$data['type'];
$data['number'];