I have a multi-dimensional array:

```
$categories = array(
    array(
        'CategoryID' => 14308,
        'CategoryLevel' => 1,
        'CategoryName' => 'Alcohol & Food',
        'CategoryParentID' => 14308
    ),
    // CHILD CATEGORIES
    array(
        array(
            'CategoryID' => 179836,
            'CategoryLevel' => 2,
            'CategoryName' => 'Alcohol & Alcohol Mixes',
            'CategoryParentID' => 14308
        ),
        array(
            array(
                'CategoryID' => 172528,
                'CategoryLevel' => 2,
                'CategoryName' => 'Antipasto, Savoury',
                'CategoryParentID' => 14308
            )
        )
    )
);

```

I need to get the exact location of the index, and since `array_search` doesn't work on multi-dimensional arrays, I'm using one of the functions provided on the PHP manual page.

```
function recursive_array_search($needle,$haystack) {
    foreach($haystack as $key=>$value) {
        $current_key=$key;
        if($needle===$value OR (is_array($value) && recursive_array_search($needle,$value) !== false)) {
            return $current_key;
        }
    }
    return false;
}

```

.. but it also returns the key of the first array only:

```
echo recursive_array_search(172528, $categories); // outputs 1

```

I'm expecting: 

```
[1][1][0]

```