How to check if multiple array keys exists

Question

I have a variety of arrays that will either contain

story & message

or just

story

How would I check to see if an array contains both story and message? array_key_exists() only looks for that single key in the array.

Is there a way to do this?

Answer 1

Something as this could be used

//Say given this array
$array_in_use2 = ['hay' => 'come', 'message' => 'no', 'story' => 'yes'];
//This gives either true or false if story and message is there
count(array_intersect(['story', 'message'], array_keys($array_in_use2))) === 2;

Note the check against 2, if the values you want to search is different you can change.

This solution may not be efficient, but it works!

Updates

In one fat function:

 /**
 * Like php array_key_exists, this instead search if (one or more) keys exists in the array
 * @param array $needles - keys to look for in the array
 * @param array $haystack - the <b>Associative</b> array to search
 * @param bool $all - [Optional] if false then checks if some keys are found
 * @return bool true if the needles are found else false. <br>
 * Note: if hastack is multidimentional only the first layer is checked<br>,
 * the needles should <b>not be<b> an associative array else it returns false<br>
 * The array to search must be associative array too else false may be returned
 */
function array_keys_exists($needles, $haystack, $all = true)
{
    $size = count($needles);
    if($all) return count(array_intersect($needles, array_keys($haystack))) === $size;
    return !empty(array_intersect($needles, array_keys($haystack)));

}

So for example with this:

$array_in_use2 = ['hay' => 'come', 'message' => 'no', 'story' => 'yes'];
//One of them exists --> true
$one_or_more_exists = array_keys_exists(['story', 'message'], $array_in_use2, false);
//all of them exists --> true
$all_exists = array_keys_exists(['story', 'message'], $array_in_use2);

Hope this helps :)

Answer 2

This is old and will probably get buried, but this is my attempt.

I had an issue similar to @Ryan. In some cases, I needed to only check if at least 1 key was in an array, and in some cases, all needed to be present.

So I wrote this function:

/**
 * A key check of an array of keys
 * @param array $keys_to_check An array of keys to check
 * @param array $array_to_check The array to check against
 * @param bool $strict Checks that all $keys_to_check are in $array_to_check | Default: false
 * @return bool
 */
function array_keys_exist(array $keys_to_check, array $array_to_check, $strict = false) {
    // Results to pass back //
    $results = false;

    // If all keys are expected //
    if ($strict) {
        // Strict check //

        // Keys to check count //
        $ktc = count($keys_to_check);
        // Array to check count //
        $atc = count(array_intersect($keys_to_check, array_keys($array_to_check)));

        // Compare all //
        if ($ktc === $atc) {
            $results = true;
        }
    } else {
        // Loose check - to see if some keys exist //

        // Loop through all keys to check //
        foreach ($keys_to_check as $ktc) {
            // Check if key exists in array to check //
            if (array_key_exists($ktc, $array_to_check)) {
                $results = true;
                // We found at least one, break loop //
                break;
            }
        }
    }

    return $results;
}

This was a lot easier than having to write multiple || and && blocks.

Answer 3

<?php

function check_keys_exists($keys_str = "", $arr = array()){
    $return = false;
    if($keys_str != "" and !empty($arr)){
        $keys = explode(',', $keys_str);
        if(!empty($keys)){
            foreach($keys as $key){
                $return = array_key_exists($key, $arr);
                if($return == false){
                    break;
                }
            }
        }
    }
    return $return;
}

//run demo

$key = 'a,b,c';
$array = array('a'=>'aaaa','b'=>'ccc','c'=>'eeeee');

var_dump( check_keys_exists($key, $array));

Answer 4

Does this not work?

array_key_exists('story', $myarray) && array_key_exists('message', $myarray)

Answer 5

I am not sure, if it is bad idea but I use very simple foreach loop to check multiple array key.

// get post attachment source url
$image     = wp_get_attachment_image_src(get_post_thumbnail_id($post_id), 'single-post-thumbnail');
// read exif data
$tech_info = exif_read_data($image[0]);

// set require keys
$keys = array('Make', 'Model');

// run loop to add post metas foreach key
foreach ($keys as $key => $value)
{
    if (array_key_exists($value, $tech_info))
    {
        // add/update post meta
        update_post_meta($post_id, MPC_PREFIX . $value, $tech_info[$value]);
    }
} 

Answer 6

// sample data
$requiredKeys = ['key1', 'key2', 'key3'];
$arrayToValidate = ['key1' => 1, 'key2' => 2, 'key3' => 3];

function keysExist(array $requiredKeys, array $arrayToValidate) {
    if ($requiredKeys === array_keys($arrayToValidate)) {
        return true;
    }

    return false;
}