How to retrieve an array from Multidimensional Array.

Posted by Mike Smith on Stack Overflow See other posts from Stack Overflow or by Mike Smith
Published on 2011-01-09T18:48:52Z Indexed on 2011/01/09 18:53 UTC
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So I have a multi-dimensional array looks like this.

$config = array(
  "First Name" => array(
          "user"  => $_POST['firstname'],
          "limit" => 35,
        ),
  "Last Name" => array(
          "user"  => $_POST['lastname'],
          "limit" => 40,
        ),
);

I want use the array that's within the config array, so my approach is to use a foreach loop.

foreach($config as $field => $data) {

}

Now I know that $data will be my array, but it seems I can't use it outside of the foreach statement because I only get half of whats already there. Using print_r you can see what it shows outside the loop:

 Array
(
    [user] => lastname
    [limit] => 40
)

But when inside the loop and I use print_r here is my result:

Array
(
    [user] => firstname
    [limit] => 35
)
Array
(
    [user] => lastname
    [limit] => 40
)

I imagine it has to do something with it being with the foreach loop. I've tried to run a foreach on the $data array to populate another array, but that didn't work as well.

Is there a way to use this outside of a foreach loop?

Sorry if this a dumb question, I'm sure there is a quite a simple answer to this, but I'm just stumped, and can't think of a way to do this. Thanks.

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