在Jakub的出色回答的基础上，这里有一个更通用的搜索，将允许指定键(不仅仅是uid):

function searcharray($value, $key, $array) {
   foreach ($array as $k => $val) {
       if ($val[$key] == $value) {
           return $k;
       }
   }
   return null;
}

用法:$results = searcharray('searchvalue'， searchkey， $array);

扩展@mayhem创建的函数，这个例子将更多的是一个“模糊”搜索，如果你只是想匹配搜索字符串的一部分(大部分):

 function searchArrayKeyVal($sKey, $id, $array) {
    foreach ($array as $key => $val) {
        if (strpos(strtolower($val[$sKey]), strtolower(trim($id))) !== false) {
            return $key;
        }
    }
         return false;
 }

例如，数组中的值是Welcome to New York!而你只想要第一个“纽约”

我修改了下面的一个例子，描述函数array_search。函数searchItemsByKey返回多维数组(N层)中通过$key返回的所有值。也许，它会对某人有用。例子:

 $arr = array(
     'XXX'=>array(
               'YYY'=> array(
                    'AAA'=> array(
                          'keyN' =>'value1'
                   )
               ),
              'ZZZ'=> array(
                    'BBB'=> array(
                          'keyN' => 'value2'
                   )
               )
              //.....
           )
);


$result = searchItemsByKey($arr,'keyN');

print '<pre>';
print_r($result);
print '<pre>';
// OUTPUT
Array
(
  [0] => value1
  [1] => value2
)

函数代码:

function searchItemsByKey($array, $key)
{
   $results = array();

  if (is_array($array))
  {
    if (isset($array[$key]) && key($array)==$key)
        $results[] = $array[$key];

    foreach ($array as $sub_array)
        $results = array_merge($results, searchItemsByKey($sub_array, $key));
  }

 return  $results;
}

我正在寻找类似于MySQL像%term%的功能。根据本页的答案。我能够从文件中搜索JSON数组。

user_list。Json看起来像下面的示例:

{
  "user-23456": {
        "name": "John Doe",
        "age": "20",
        "email": "doe@sample.com",
        "user_id": "23456"
    },
    "user-09876": {
        "name": "Ronojoy Adams",
        "age": "35",
        "email": "joy@sample.com",
        "user_id": "09876"
    },
    "user-34890": {
        "name": "Will Artkin",
        "age": "16",
        "email": "will@sample.com",
        "user_id": "34890"
    },
}

/*
*search_key_like
*/

function search_key_like($value, $key, $array) {
     $results=array();
    $keyword = preg_quote($value, '~');
   foreach ($array as $k => $val) {
//if name a is spell John and keyword is sent as joh or JOH it will return null
//to fix the issue convert the string into lowercase and uppercase
       $data=array($val[$key],strtolower($val[$key]),strtoupper($val[$key]));
       if (preg_grep('~' . $keyword . '~', $data)) {
       array_push($results,$val[$key]);           
    }
   }
   return $results;
}

使用===提取JSON文件===

 $user_list_json='./user_list.json';
    if(file_exists($user_list_json) && file_get_contents($user_list_json)){
    $file_json_data=file_get_contents($user_list_json);
        
    $json_array_data=json_decode($file_json_data,true);
        
        $user_name_like = search_key_like('ron', 'name', $json_array_data);
   
         print "<pre>".print_r($user_name_like,true);
    }

/**
 * searches a simple as well as multi dimension array
 * @param type $needle
 * @param type $haystack
 * @return boolean
 */
public static function in_array_multi($needle, $haystack){
    $needle = trim($needle);
    if(!is_array($haystack))
        return False;

    foreach($haystack as $key=>$value){
        if(is_array($value)){
            if(self::in_array_multi($needle, $value))
                return True;
            else
               self::in_array_multi($needle, $value);
        }
        else
        if(trim($value) === trim($needle)){//visibility fix//
            error_log("$value === $needle setting visibility to 1 hidden");
            return True;
        }
    }

    return False;
}

看起来array_filter将是合适的解决方案…

$userdb=Array
(
    (0) => Array
        (
            (uid) => '100',
            (name) => 'Sandra Shush',
            (url) => 'urlof100'
        ),

    (1) => Array
        (
            (uid) => '5465',
            (name) => 'Stefanie Mcmohn',
            (pic_square) => 'urlof100'
        ),

    (2) => Array
        (
            (uid) => '40489',
            (name) => 'Michael',
            (pic_square) => 'urlof40489'
        )
);

PHP代码

<?php 
$search = 5465;
$found = array_filter($userdb,function($v,$k) use ($search){
  return $v['uid'] == $search;
},ARRAY_FILTER_USE_BOTH); // With latest PHP third parameter is optional.. Available Values:- ARRAY_FILTER_USE_BOTH OR ARRAY_FILTER_USE_KEY  

$values= print_r(array_values($found));
$keys =  print_r(array_keys($found));