This is also handy for testing an array for one of a series of acceptable elements. As a simple example, if you're expecting the query string to contain one of, say, user_id, order_id or item_id, to find out which one it is you could do this:
<?php
$valid_ids = array ('user_id', 'item_id', 'order_id');
if ($id = current (array_intersect ($valid_ids, array_keys ($_GET))))
{
}
else
?>
...which could be useful for constructing an SQL query, or some other situation where testing for them one by one might be too clumsy.
