Display and count qualifying data from a 2d array

counting, filtering, multidimensional-array, php

Solution

$number_of_green_fruit = 0;
for ($row = 0; $row < 3; $row++) {
    if($fruit[$row]["color"]=="green") {
         $number_of_green_fruit++;
         echo $fruit[$row]["name"] . '<br />';
    }
}

Problem

I'm trying to count the number of times a certain value appears in my multidimensional array based on a condition. Here's an example array; ``` $fruit = [ "oranges" => [ "name" => "Orange", "color" => "orange", "taste" => "sweet", "healthy" => "yes" ], "apples" => [ "name" => "Apple", "color" => "green", "taste" => "sweet", "healthy" => "yes" ], "bananas" => [ "name" => "Banana", "color" => "yellow", "taste" => "sweet", "healthy" => "yes" ], "grapes" => [ "name" => "Grape", "color" => "green", "taste" => "sweet", "healthy" => "yes" ] ]; ``` If I want to display all `green` coloured fruit, I can do the following (let me know if this is the best way of doing it): ``` for ($row = 0; $row < 3; $row++) { if($fruit[$row]["color"]=="green") { echo $fruit[$row]["name"] . '<br />'; } } ``` This will output: ``` Apple Grape ``` That's great and I can see their are 2 values there, but how can I actually get PHP to count the number of fruit where the colour is `green` and put it in a variable for me to use further down the script to work stuff out? I want to do something like; ``` if ($number_of_green_fruit > 1) { echo "You have more than 1 piece of green fruit"; } ``` I've taken a look at `count()`, but I don't see any way to add conditional logic to that function call.

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