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<?php $array = array ( 0 => array ( 'umeta_id' => 3221, 'user_id' => 130, 'meta_key' => 'nickname', 'meta_value' => 'email@domain.com' ), 1 => array ( 'umeta_id' => 3222, 'user_id' => 130, 'meta_key' => 'first_name', 'meta_value' => 'Jim' ), 2 => array ( 'umeta_id' => 3223, 'user_id' => 130, 'meta_key' => 'last_name', 'meta_value' => 'Jones' ) ); function get_value($array, $key) { $k = array_search($key, array_column($array, 'meta_key')); if ($k !== false) return $array[$k]['meta_value']; else return ''; } echo get_value($array, 'first_name') . PHP_EOL; echo get_value($array, 'nickname') . PHP_EOL;