How to tell if array contains another array - php

Question

Well this has been a headache.
I have two arrays;
$array_1 = Array
(
[0] => Array
(
[id] => 1
[name] => 'john'
[age] => 30
)
[1] => Array
(
[id] => 2
[name] => 'Amma'
[age] => 28
)
[2] => Array
(
[id] => 3
[name] => 'Francis'
[age] => 29
)
)
And another array
array_2 = = Array
(
[0] => Array
(
[id] => 2
[name] => 'Amma'
)
)
How can I tell that the id and name of $array_2 are the same as the id and name of $array_1[1] and return $array_1[1]['age']?
Thanks

Answer 1

foreach($array_1 as $id=>$arr)
{
if($arr["id"]==$array_2[0]["id"] AND $arr["name"]==$array_2[0]["name"])
{
//Do your stuff here
}
}

Answer 2

Well you can do it in a straightforward loop. I am going to write a function that takes the FIRST element in $array_2 that matches something in $array_1 and returns the 'age':
function getField($array_1, $array_2, $field)
{
foreach ($array_2 as $a2) {
foreach ($array_1 as $a1) {
$match = true;
foreach ($a2 as $k => $v) {
if (!isset($a1[$k]) || $a1[$k] != $a2[$k]) {
$match = false;
break;
}
}
if ($match) {
return $a1[$field];
}
}
}
return null;
}

Answer 3

Use array_diff().
In my opinion, using array_diff() is a more generic solution than simply comparing the specific keys.
Array_diff() returns a new array that represents all entries that exists in the first array and DO NOT exist in the second array.
Since your first array contains 3 keys and the seconds array contains 2 keys, when there's 2 matches, array_diff() will return an array containing the extra key (age).
foreach ($array_1 as $arr) {
if (count(array_diff($arr, $array_2[1])) === 1) {//meaning 2 out of 3 were a match
echo $arr['age'];//prints the age
}
}
Hope this helps!

Answer 4

I assume you want to find the age of somebody that has a known id and name.
This will work :
foreach ($array_1 as $val){
if($val['id']==$array_2[0]['id'] && $val['name']==$array_1[0]['name']){
$age = $val['age'];
}
}
echo $age;

Answer 5

Try looking into this.
http://www.w3schools.com/php/func_array_diff.asp
And
comparing two arrays in php
-Best