<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >in_array</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="PHP Manual" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Array Functions" HREF="ref.array.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="extract" HREF="function.extract.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="key" HREF="function.key.html"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="refentry" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >PHP Manual</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.extract.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.key.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.in-array" ></A >in_array</H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN8775" ></A ><P > (PHP 4 )</P >in_array -- Return <TT CLASS="constant" ><B >TRUE</B ></TT > if a value exists in an array</DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN8779" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 >bool <B CLASS="methodname" >in_array</B > ( mixed needle, array haystack [, bool strict])<BR ></BR ><P > Searches <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >haystack</I ></TT > for <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >needle</I ></TT > and returns <TT CLASS="constant" ><B >TRUE</B ></TT > if it is found in the array, <TT CLASS="constant" ><B >FALSE</B ></TT > otherwise. </P ><P > If the third parameter <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >strict</I ></TT > is set to <TT CLASS="constant" ><B >TRUE</B ></TT > then the <B CLASS="function" >in_array()</B > function will also check the <A HREF="language.types.html" >types</A > of the <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >needle</I ></TT > in the <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >haystack</I ></TT >. </P ><DIV CLASS="note" ><BLOCKQUOTE CLASS="note" ><P ><B >Note: </B > If <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >needle</I ></TT > is a string, the comparison is done in a case-sensitive manner. </P ></BLOCKQUOTE ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="note" ><BLOCKQUOTE CLASS="note" ><P ><B >Note: </B > In PHP versions before 4.2.0 <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >needle</I ></TT > was not allowed to be an array. </P ></BLOCKQUOTE ></DIV ><P > <TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" CLASS="EXAMPLE" ><TR ><TD ><DIV CLASS="example" ><A NAME="AEN8812" ></A ><P ><B >Example 1. <B CLASS="function" >in_array()</B > example</B ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="php" >$os = array ("Mac", "NT", "Irix", "Linux"); if (in_array ("Irix", $os)) { print "Got Irix"; } if (in_array ("mac", $os)) { print "Got mac"; }</PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P > The second condition fails because <B CLASS="function" >in_array()</B > is case-sensitive, so the program above will display: <TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="php" >Got Irix</PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE > </P ></DIV ></TD ></TR ></TABLE > </P ><P > <TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" CLASS="EXAMPLE" ><TR ><TD ><DIV CLASS="example" ><A NAME="AEN8820" ></A ><P ><B >Example 2. <B CLASS="function" >in_array()</B > with strict example</B ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="php" ><?php $a = array('1.10', 12.4, 1.13); if (in_array('12.4', $a, TRUE)) echo "'12.4' found with strict check\n"; if (in_array(1.13, $a, TRUE)) echo "1.13 found with strict check\n"; ?></PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P > This will display: <TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="php" >1.13 found with strict check</PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE > </P ></DIV ></TD ></TR ></TABLE > </P ><P > <TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" CLASS="EXAMPLE" ><TR ><TD ><DIV CLASS="example" ><A NAME="AEN8827" ></A ><P ><B >Example 3. <B CLASS="function" >in_array()</B > with an array as needle</B ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="php" ><?php $a = array(array('p', 'h'), array('p', 'r'), 'o'); 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