note 36636 added to function.array-unique
| From: | tru at ascribedata dot com | Date: | Thu, 16 Oct 2003 20:40:16 +0000 |
| Subject: | note 36636 added to function.array-unique | ||
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Here's a function to make a multi-dimensional array have only DISTINCT values for a certain
"column". It's like using the DISTINCT parameter on a SELECT sql statement.
function unique_multi_array($array, $sub_key) {
$target = array();
$existing_sub_key_values = array();
foreach ($array as $key=>$sub_array) {
if (!in_array($sub_array[$sub_key], $existing_sub_key_values)) {
$existing_sub_key_values[] = $sub_array[$sub_key];
$target[$key] = $sub_array;
}
}
return $target;
}
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