Remove an element from an array if certain value matched

delete-value-in-multi-dimentional-array.php

<?php
	// **** For simple array
	// Delete value 2 in the array
	$id = 2;
	$simple_array = array(1, 2, 3);
	$key = array_search($id, $array);
	unset($array[$key]);
	// We are expecting to remove id #2. To check:
	print_r($array);

	// **** For multi-dimentional array
	$position = 'SG';
	// We are trying to remove an array that matched the position
	$array_values = array (
			   array(
			    'id' => 1, 
			    'name' => 'Kobe',
			    'position' => 'SG',
			    'birth_date' => '10-22-2019' ),
			   array(
			    'id' => 2, 
			    'name' => 'Lebron',
			    'position' => 'SF',
			    'birth_date' => '11-01-2019' ),
			  array(
			    'id' => 3, 
			    'name' => 'Mike',
			    'position' => 'SG',
			    'birth_date' => '10-18-2019' ),
			  array(
			    'id' => 4, 
			    'name' => 'Magic',
			    'position' => 'PG',
			    'birth_date' => '10-11-2019' )
			  );
	foreach($array_values as $key => $value) {
	  if ($value['position'] == $position) {
			unset($array_values[$key]);
		}
	}
	// We are expecting to remove players that have 'SG' positions. To check:
	echo '<pre>';
	print_r($array_values);
	echo '<pre>';