Remove element in multidimensional array with match PHP

Question

I have this multidimensional array:

[0] => Array
    (
        [id] => 55829
        [date] => 2014-09-05 07:00:56
        [customer] => Engineering
        [server] => example
        [status] => Successful
        [version] => 1
    )

[1] => Array
    (
        [id] => 55776
        [date] => 2014-09-05 06:58:30
        [customer] => Coating
        [server] => example
        [status] => Successful
        [version] => 1
    )

I want to be able to loop through the array and if the second level 'customer' value matches a value in this array:

Array
(
    [0] => Engineering
    [1] => Painting
)

I then want to remove/unset the parent array completely if there is a match so that the first array would then be:

[0] => Array
    (
        [id] => 55776
        [date] => 2014-09-05 06:58:30
        [customer] => Coating
        [server] => example
        [status] => Successful
        [version] => 1
    )

Answer 1

The below should work where $records is the multi dimensional array and $second_array contains Engineering / Painting.

<?php
foreach( $records as $key => $record )
{
    if( in_array( $record['customer'], $second_array ) )
    {
        unset( $records[ $key ] );  
    }
}
?>