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Posted by Nafis Ishtiaque
Nafis Ishtiaque
9,663 Points

confused about why array_key_exists was used here

public function getCombinedIngredients(){ $ingredients = array(); foreach ($this->recipes as $recipe){ foreach ($recipe->getIngredients() as $ing){ 

         $item = $ing["item"];
         if(strpos($item,",")){ 
             $item  = strstr($item,',',true); // gets rid of comma before the output
         }
         if(strstr($item,-1) == 's' && array_key_exists(rtrim($item,"s"),$ingredients)){


             $item = rtrim($item,"s");
         }else if(array_key_exists($item."s",$ingredients)){
             $item .="s";
         }
         $ingredients [$item] = array(

             $ing["amount"],
             $ing["measure"]
         );
     }
 }
 return $ingredients;

}

} hi why array_key_exist was used here cause i though we are looking through value I though array_value_exsits would make more sense.