Get values (plural) from multi-dimensional array with key - php

Question

I know the key, now I need ALL of the results that would yield when I search the 5000+ user database. Any user may have none, one or multiple locations, identified by an id and name field. Therefore I need the results in an array, not just the first/last one, but all of them. Below is an example of a user (actual array setup, fake data ;) )
Array
(
[ID] => 2
[user_login] => SomeGuy
[user_pass] => GreatEncryptedPassword
[user_nicename] => Some Guy
[user_email] => someguy#has-email.com
[user_url] => someguy.com
[user_registered] => 2013-04-11 11:18:58
[user_activation_key] =>
[user_status] => 0
[display_name] => Some Guy
[umeta_id] => 31
[user_id] => 2
[meta_key] => facebookmeta
[meta_value] => Array
(
[id] => 1234567890
[name] => Some Guy
[first_name] => Some
[last_name] => Guy
[link] => http://www.facebook.com/someguy
[username] => someguy
[birthday] => 02/21/1983
[location] => Array
(
[id] => 108276092536515 //actual ID, try at facebook.com/108276092536515
[name] => Arnhem, Netherlands
)
[gender] => male
[relationship_status] => In a Relationship
[significant_other] => Array
(
[name] => Some Chick
[id] => 12345678906789
)
[email] => someguy#has-email.com
[timezone] => 2
[locale] => nl_NL
[verified] => 1
[updated_time] => 2013-04-02T09:28:30+0000
)
)
As you can make out, this guy has 1 location in his facebook data, but other locations include the same [location] => Array ( [id] => 123 [name] => SomePlace ) for example for [work] or [education], or, or, or...
I've tried a recursive function like this:
function get_value_by_key( $array, $key ){
foreach( $array as $k => $each ){
if( $k == $key ){
return $each;
}
if( is_array( $each )){
if( $return = get_value_by_key($each,$key)){
return $return;
}
}
}
}
print_r( get_value_by_key( $users, 'location' );
How can I modify the above function to return an array of location arrays? This one return the above data of the first user containing a location, not the location itself or an array of them.
EDIT:
What I need as a result is something like this:
Array(
[0] => Array(
[id] => 1234567890
[name] => GreatCity, World
)
[1] => Array(
[id] => 2345678901
[name] => SomeCity, Blop
)
[2] => Array(
[id] => 3456789012
[name] => AnotherCity, Boo
)
)
Edit based on answer
Answer from Thomas David Plat gives me the correct results, but still a not very usable data structure. How to get the results out of the structure and into that shown in the above edit?
Results from David's answer:
Array
(
[0] => Array
(
[0] => Array
(
[0] => Array
(
[id] => 108276092536515
[name] => Arnhem, Netherlands
)
[1] => Array()
)
)
[1] => Array
(
[0] => Array
(
[0] => Array
(
[id] => 108276092536515
[name] => Arnhem, Netherlands
)
[1] => Array()
)
)
[2] => Array()
[3] => Array()
[4] => Array()
I've tried variations of array_filter, array_map, array_values and others like below:
$locations = array_map( 'array_filter', find_array_values( $users, 'location' ));
But the structure seems to stay...

Answer 1

UPDATED ANSWER
$matches = array();
function find_array_values($haystack, $needle)
{
global $matches;
$collection = array();
foreach($haystack AS $key => $value)
{
if($key === $needle)
{
$matches[] = $value;
}
else if(is_array($value))
{
find_array_values($value, $needle);
}
}
}
find_array_values($array, 'location');
print_r($matches);
?>
This will work, but as I already said in the comments it's a bad practice since it uses the global keyword. If you implement this function as a method into a class, instead of using the global keyword you could use a class variable which would be a neat solution.
OLD Answer
function find_array_values($haystack, $needle)
{
$collection = array();
foreach($haystack AS $key => $value)
{
if($key === $needle)
{
$collection[] = $value;
}
else if(is_array($value))
{
$collection[] = find_array_values($value, $needle);
}
}
return $collection;
}
echo "<pre>";
print_r(find_array_values($users, 'location'));
echo "</pre>";
Here you are. Just pass an array of your users into the function. The function will return an array of arrays of locations.
There's one restriction. The function will not search trough locations that are within locations.

Answer 2

you can modify ur location part of your array like this
[location] => Array
(
[work]=> Array(
[id] => 108276092536515
[name] => Arnhem, Netherlands
)
[home] => Array(
[id] => 108276092536515
[name] => Arnhem, Somewhere else
)
)
if you modify your array like this then your function will return array of arrays for location