note 91756 added to function.array-diff

Hello guys, I´ve been looking for a array_diff that works with recursive arrays, I´ve tried the ottodenn at gmail dot com function but to my case it doesn´t worked as expected, so I made my own. I´ve haven´t tested this extensively, but I´ll explain my scenario, and this works great at that case :D We got 2 arrays like these: $aArray1['marcie'] = array('banana' => 1, 'orange' => 1, 'pasta' => 1); $aArray1['kenji'] = array('apple' => 1, 'pie' => 1, 'pasta' => 1); $aArray2['marcie'] = array('banana' => 1, 'orange' => 1); As array_diff, this function returns all the items that is in aArray1 and IS NOT at aArray2, so the result we should expect is: $aDiff['marcie'] = array('pasta' => 1); $aDiff['kenji'] = array('apple' => 1, 'pie' => 1, 'pasta' => 1); Ok, now some comments about this function: - Different from the PHP array_diff, this function DON´T uses the === operator, but the ==, so 0 is equal to '0' or false, but this can be changed with no impacts. - This function checks the keys of the arrays, array_diff only compares the values. I realy hopes that this could help some1 as I´ve been helped a lot with some users experiences. (Just please double check if it would work for your case, as I sad I just tested to a scenario like the one I exposed) function arrayRecursiveDiff($aArray1, $aArray2) { $aReturn = array(); foreach ($aArray1 as $mKey => $mValue) { if (array_key_exists($mKey, $aArray2)) { if (is_array($mValue)) { $aRecursiveDiff = $this->arrayRecursiveDiff($mValue, $aArray2[$mKey]); if (count($aRecursiveDiff)) { $aReturn[$mKey] = $aRecursiveDiff; } } else { if ($mValue != $aArray2[$mKey]) { $aReturn[$mKey] = $mValue; } } } else { $aReturn[$mKey] = $mValue; } } return $aReturn; } ---- Server IP: 64.71.164.2 Probable Submitter: 189.101.234.207 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.array-diff.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/91756 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/91756/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/91756/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/91756/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/91756/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/91756/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/91756/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/91756 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/91756 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php