Content by: Steve Stewart

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Find Needle in Haystack

A term used for looking in arrays too see if value exists.
First we'll create an array.
Then the needle (Word) we want to find.
An we'll use php array_search.

<?php
$haystack = array('audi', 'bmw', 'ford', 'saab', 'vauxhaul');
$needle = 'saab';
$index = array_search($needle, $haystack);
if(!array_search($needle, $haystack)){
	echo 'We did not find '.$needle.'';
} else {
    echo $needle.' was found';	
}