PHP If switch for a multidimensional array with an Unknown

Question

Just curious if there's a way to do this in a If switch

$account = array (
'{unkown value}' => 
    array (
      'accountID' => '4430290',
      'accountStatus' => '1',
      'parentAccountID' => '',
      'offerID' => '746',
      'billingModel' => '2.0',
    ),
);


if(array_pop($account)['billingModel'] == 'SomeValue') {
    // do stuff
}

I'm currently doing this, but thought there might be a better way

        $model = array_pop($accountInfo);
        if ($model['billingModel'] == 'someValue') return false;

Answer 1

Newer versions of php allow you to chain expressions like that. Examples:

php 5.3: http://codepad.viper-7.com/4zgSxW

php 5.4: http://codepad.viper-7.com/oGtKqc

Both use the same code:

<?php
$array = array(range(1,5), range(6,10), range(11, 15));

if(array_shift($array)[0] == 1){
    echo "hello";   
}

5.3 shows a parse error. 5.4 shows the expected output.

Answer 2

If you just want to do something if subarray element is with some value , then you must actually look into array_search()

http://php.net/manual/en/function.array-search.php