我正在寻找一个函数，它可以让我在数组(干草堆)中搜索字符串和数组(如针)，所以我通过@jwueller添加到答案中。

这是我的代码:

/**
 * Recursive in_array function
 * Searches recursively for needle in an array (haystack).
 * Works with both strings and arrays as needle.
 * Both needle's and haystack's keys are ignored, only values are compared.
 * Note: if needle is an array, all values in needle have to be found for it to
 * return true. If one value is not found, false is returned.
 * @param  mixed   $needle   The array or string to be found
 * @param  array   $haystack The array to be searched in
 * @param  boolean $strict   Use strict value & type validation (===) or just value
 * @return boolean           True if in array, false if not.
 */
function in_array_r($needle, $haystack, $strict = false) {
     // array wrapper
    if (is_array($needle)) {
        foreach ($needle as $value) {
            if (in_array_r($value, $haystack, $strict) == false) {
                // an array value was not found, stop search, return false
                return false;
            }
        }
        // if the code reaches this point, all values in array have been found
        return true;
    }

    // string handling
    foreach ($haystack as $item) {
        if (($strict ? $item === $needle : $item == $needle)
            || (is_array($item) && in_array_r($needle, $item, $strict))) {
            return true;
        }
    }
    return false;
}

这个也可以。

function in_array_r($item , $array){
    return preg_match('/"'.preg_quote($item, '/').'"/i' , json_encode($array));
}

用法:

if(in_array_r($item , $array)){
    // found!
}

更短的版本，用于基于数据库结果集创建的多维数组。

function in_array_r($array, $field, $find){
    foreach($array as $item){
        if($item[$field] == $find) return true;
    }
    return false;
}

$is_found = in_array_r($os_list, 'os_version', 'XP');

如果$os_list数组在os_version字段中包含'XP'则返回。

你可以这样用

$result = array_intersect($array1, $array2);
print_r($result);

http://php.net/manual/tr/function.array-intersect.php

那么array_search呢?根据https://gist.github.com/Ocramius/1290076的说法，似乎比foreach快得多。

if( array_search("Irix", $a) === true) 
{
    echo "Got Irix";
}

伟大的功能，但它不为我工作，直到我添加了if($found){打破;}到elseif

function in_array_r($needle, $haystack) {
    $found = false;
    foreach ($haystack as $item) {
    if ($item === $needle) { 
            $found = true; 
            break; 
        } elseif (is_array($item)) {
            $found = in_array_r($needle, $item); 
            if($found) { 
                break; 
            } 
        }    
    }
    return $found;
}