The invention relates to a photochemical 
colorimetric sensor array, and concretely relates to a method for detecting various heavy 
metal ions with the photochemical 
colorimetric sensor array. The method comprises the following steps: 1, fixing several heavy 
metal ion indicators on a porous sensitive film to form an array; 2, carrying out multichannel analysis by means of a plurality of single channel 
flow cell systems which are mutually independent with each other; and 3, rapidly determining whether contents of various trace heavy 
metal ions of Hg, Pb, Cd, Ag, As, Ni, Cu, Zn and the like in water exceed 
sewage discharge standards prescribed by national standards within 10min. According to the 
sensor array, a 
color imaging device acquires changes of colors before and after the 
exposure of the indicators in various different heavy metal ions and constructs RGB (red, green, blue) spectrum values corresponding with the 
color changes into the "
fingerprint" of each heavy metal ions. In the sample test process, mathematical statistic methods of 
cluster analysis, main 
component analysis and the like are adopted to contrast the 
fingerprint of the sample with a "
fingerprint" 
database, so unknown heavy metal ions can be qualitatively or semi-quantitatively analyzed.