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<?php /** * Search into a multi dimensional array to find arbitrary data * @param array $array The array to search * @param string ... Any number of array keys * @return mixed */ function deepArraySearch(array $array, ...$keys) { // If no more keys to use if(!$keys) { return $array; } $nextKey = array_shift($keys); // Nothing left to search if(!is_array($array[$nextKey])) { return $array[$nextKey]; } return deepArraySearch($array[$nextKey], ...$keys); } $arr = ['one' => ['two' => ['three' => 'data']]]; print_r(deepArraySearch($arr, 'one')); print_r(deepArraySearch($arr, 'one', 'two')); print_r(deepArraySearch($arr, 'one', 'two', 'three')); echo PHP_EOL;