search value from 2 Dimension array
$a = array(
array(
'id' => 5698,
'first_name' => 'Peter',
'last_name' => 'Griffin',
),
array(
'id' => 4767,
'first_name' => 'Ben',
'last_name' => 'Smith',
),
array(
'id' => 3809,
'first_name' => 'Joe',
'last_name' => 'Doe',
)
);
print_r($a);
//search first name of the user "Ben"
$firstnameArray = array_column($a,"first_name");
$value = array_search("Ben",$firstnameArray);
print_r($a[$value]);
die;