note 13927 deleted from function.array-unique by cmb

Note Submitter: az at top-webdesign dot de ---- Attention! If you use array_unique be aware of data-types! (I spent hours of debugging because of that ...). For example, if you've got an array containing a '3' as number and another '3' as string it won't be eliminated by array_unique. An Example where this can happen, without really thinking about it: I've got an article-list with product-numbers where the third and fourth digit is the code for the producer. So I read in the file an process it line by line and put each producer-code into an array: ------------------------------ <?php $i=0; while($line = fgets($csv, 10000) { // splitting the line, product_no is the first part: $data = explode(";", $line); // putting the producer_code into an array: $producer_id[$i] = trim(substr($data[0], 2, 2)); // make a special exception: if(trim(substr($data[0], 2, 2)) == 40) { $producer_id[$j] = '30'; } // in the above line if you leave the 30 without the '' // array_unique won't work! $i++; } $producer_ids = array_values(array_unique($producer_id)); ?> ------------------------------- Result is to have all producer-ID's in an array without dupes.