<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >array_keys</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="array_key_exists" HREF="function.array-key-exists.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="array_map" HREF="function.array-map.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.array-key-exists.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.array-map.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.array-keys" ></A >array_keys</H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN7591" ></A ><P > (PHP 4 )</P >array_keys -- Return all the keys of an array</DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN7594" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 >array <B CLASS="methodname" >array_keys</B > ( array input [, mixed search_value])<BR ></BR ><P > <B CLASS="function" >array_keys()</B > returns the keys, numeric and string, from the <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >input</I ></TT > array. </P ><P > If the optional <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >search_value</I ></TT > is specified, then only the keys for that value are returned. Otherwise, all the keys from the <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >input</I ></TT > are returned. </P ><P > <TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" CLASS="EXAMPLE" ><TR ><TD ><DIV CLASS="example" ><A NAME="AEN7612" ></A ><P ><B >Example 1. <B CLASS="function" >array_keys()</B > example</B ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="php" >$array = array (0 => 100, "color" => "red"); print_r(array_keys ($array)); $array = array ("blue", "red", "green", "blue", "blue"); print_r(array_keys ($array, "blue")); $array = array ("color" => array("blue", "red", "green"), "size" => array("small", "medium", "large")); print_r(array_keys ($array));</PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P > The printout of the program above will be: <TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="screen" >Array ( [0] => 0 [1] => color ) Array ( [0] => 0 [1] => 3 [2] => 4 ) Array ( [0] => color [1] => size )</PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE > </P ></DIV ></TD ></TR ></TABLE > </P ><DIV CLASS="note" ><BLOCKQUOTE CLASS="note" ><P ><B >Note: </B > This function was added to PHP 4, below is an implementation for those still using PHP 3. <TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" CLASS="EXAMPLE" ><TR ><TD ><DIV CLASS="example" ><A NAME="AEN7620" ></A ><P ><B >Example 2. Implementation of <B CLASS="function" >array_keys()</B > for PHP 3 users </B ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="php" >function array_keys ($arr, $term="") { $t = array(); while (list($k,$v) = each($arr)) { if ($term && $v != $term) { continue; } $t[] = $k; } return $t; }</PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></TD ></TR ></TABLE > </P ></BLOCKQUOTE ></DIV ><P > See also <A HREF="function.array-values.html" ><B CLASS="function" >array_values()</B ></A >. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.array-key-exists.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.array-map.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >array_key_exists</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.array.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >array_map</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >