Searching Array in PHP and return results - php

Question

Can't find quite the right answer so hope someone can help. Basically want to create an array and then return the results from a search e.g.
$tsql = "SELECT date, staffid, ID,status, eventid, auditid from maincalendar";
$params = array();
$options = array( "Scrollable" => SQLSRV_CURSOR_KEYSET );
$stmt = sqlsrv_query( $conn, $tsql , $params, $options);
$calarray=array();
while($row = sqlsrv_fetch_array($stmt)) {
$rowresult = array();
$rowresult["status"] = $row['status'];
$rowresult["eventid"] = $row['eventid'];
$rowresult["caldate"] = $row['date'];
$rowresult["staffid"] = $row['staffid'];
$rowresult["ID"] = $row['ID'];
$rowresult["auditid"] = $row['auditid'];
$calarray[] = $rowresult;
}
I would then like to search for values matching 'caldate' and 'staffid' and return the associated entry in $calarray

Answer 1

I suggest the following,
Fetch all data needed for the current month you are showing, using col BETWEEN x AND y
Add them to a array in PHP, with staffid and caldate as key
Something like so;
$calarray[$row['staffid'] . '-' . $row['date']][] = $row;
Not sure if a single staffid/date combination can have one or more events per day, if not you can remove the []
To check if we have information for a specific staffid/date combination, use isset
if (isset($calarray[$staffid . '-' . $mydate]) { ... }

Answer 2

Add indexes to the fields you're going to query, and then move the search to the sql query. You can also make simple filtering inside the loop. So you'll be populating several arrays instead of one, based on the search you need.

Answer 3

try this:
$matches = array();
$caldate = //your desired date;
$staffid = //your desired id;
foreach($calarray as $k => $v){
if(in_array($caldate, $v['caldate']) && in_array($staffid, $v['staffid'])){
$matches[] = $calarray[$k];
}
}
$matches should be and array with all the results you wanted.
also:
while($row = sqlsrv_fetch_array($stmt)) {
$rowresult = array();
$rowresult["status"] = $row['status'];
$rowresult["eventid"] = $row['eventid'];
$rowresult["caldate"] = $row['date'];
$rowresult["staffid"] = $row['staffid'];
$rowresult["ID"] = $row['ID'];
$rowresult["auditid"] = $row['auditid'];
$calarray[] = $rowresult;
}
can be shortened into:
while($row = sqlsrv_fetch_array($stmt)) {
$calarray[] = $row;
}

Answer 4

Maybe this code snipplet solves your problem.
I am not a PHP programmer, so no warrenty.
function searchInArray($array, $keyword) {
for($i=0;$i<array.length();$i++) {
if(stristr($array[$i], $keyword) === FALSE) {
return "Found ".$keyword." in array[".$i."]";
}
}
}