Можно ли исключить определенные вложенные категории из меню категорий?

	function recursive_array_search($needle, $haystack, $subcat = true, &$item = false) {
		
		if(!$item) $item = array();

		foreach($haystack as $key => $value) {

			if(in_array($key, $needle)) {
			
				if( $subcat === "only" ) {

					if(is_array( $value['children'] )) {
						
						foreach($value['children'] as $value2) {
							$item[$value2['id']] = $value2;
						}
						
					}
					
				} else $item[$key] = $value;
				
				if(!$subcat AND is_array( $value['children'] ) ) {
					unset($item[$key]['children']);
					$this->recursive_array_search($needle, $value['children'], $subcat, $item);
				}

			} elseif (is_array( $value['children'] ) ) {
				$this->recursive_array_search($needle, $value['children'], $subcat, $item);
			}
		}
		
		return $item;
	}