As of PHP 5.5
you can use array_column()
:
<?php
$samples=array(
array('page' => 'page1', 'name' => 'pagename1'),
array('page' => 'page2', 'name' => 'pagename2'),
array('page' => 'page3', 'name' => 'pagename3')
);
$names = array_column($samples, 'name');
print_r($names);