How to remove duplicate values from an array in PHP

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How can I remove duplicate values from an array in PHP?

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Use array_unique().

Example:

$array = array(1, 2, 2, 3);
$array = array_unique($array); // Array is now (1, 2, 3)

Monday, October 3, 2022

semirix-b932c2d63f5f

try the following code

function my_array_unique($array, $keep_key_assoc = false){
    $duplicate_keys = array();
    $tmp = array();       

    foreach ($array as $key => $val){
        // convert objects to arrays, in_array() does not support objects
        if (is_object($val))
            $val = (array)$val;

        if (!in_array($val, $tmp))
            $tmp[] = $val;
        else
            $duplicate_keys[] = $key;
    }

    foreach ($duplicate_keys as $key)
        unset($array[$key]);

    return $keep_key_assoc ? $array : array_values($array);
}

Saturday, September 24, 2022

maru_amallo

Consider first splitting the keywords argument by spaces, then finding the unique values:

$posted = array_unique(explode(' ', str_replace("n", ' ', $posted)));

Tuesday, December 27, 2022

joscas

Bit late, but may help someone looking for same answer. I used this very simple approach to;

remove all the keys from nested arrays that contain no value, then
remove all the empty nested arrays.

$postArr = array_map('array_filter', $postArr);
$postArr = array_filter( $postArr );

Wednesday, August 17, 2022

celso_dias_catarino_neto

A quick way using array_reduce would look like:

$unique = array_reduce($subject, function($final, $article){
    static $seen = array();
    if ( ! array_key_exists($article['fk_article_id'], $seen)) {
        $seen[$article['fk_article_id']] = NULL;
        $final[] = $article;
    }
    return $final;
});

Try a working example.

Edit: Seems you don't want to work with the aggregated results. Here are two other thoughts:

Filtering in PHP

$seen = array();
while ($row = pg_fetch_assoc($authors_result)) {
    // Skip this row if we have already seen its article id
    if (array_key_exists($row['fk_article_id'], $seen)) {
        continue;
    }
    // Note that we have seen this article
    $seen[$row['fk_article_id']] = NULL;
    // Do whatever with your row
    var_dump($row);
}

Filtering in the DB

The idea here is to change the query being executed so that the repeated article ids do not appear in the result set. How this is done will depend on the query that you're already using.

Thursday, October 13, 2022

epsilon_prime

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