checking condition before foreach loop execution php - php

Question

i want to check condition before for loop execution
this is my array
$rs=Array (
[0] => Array (
[questionID] => 47
[surveyID] => 51
[userID] => 31
[question_Title] => Choose Any One?
[question_Type] => Dropdown
[response] => 1.Android 2.Windows 3.Blackberry
[required] => 0
[add_time] => 0
)
[1] => Array (
[questionID] => 48
[surveyID] => 51
[userID] => 31
[question_Title] => Is it?
[question_Type] => Bigbox
[response] => Yes No
[required] => 1
[add_time] => 0
)
[2] => Array (
[questionID] => 129
[surveyID] => 51
[userID] => 31
[question_Title] => sELECT
[question_Type] => Single
[response] => DFG HBK GHCK HK
[required] => 0
[add_time] => 0
)
)
now i want to check if in $rs [required] => 1
then stop over all execution or $rs traversing using for each loop
rather from above example i want to stop executing first loop also.

Answer 1

Use array_column and achieve this functionality
Reference
http://php.net/manual/en/function.array-column.php
http://php.net/manual/en/function.array-search.php
Lower version array column function code
https://github.com/ramsey/array_column/blob/master/src/array_column.php
<?php
//assumed records is your array
$required = array_column($records, 'required');
if(FALSE===array_search('1', $required))
{
//value is not exist then process your loop
}
else
{
//required value is 1 then ignore the loop
}