array_count_values
A quite simple (yet not very efficient) way to compare the first level of arrays which have values that are not strings:
array_map('unserialize',array_diff_assoc(array_map('serialize',$arr1),array_map('serialize',$arr2)))
Might be useful for debugging (that's what I use it for).
array_diff_assoc
(PHP 4 >= 4.3.0, PHP 5)
array_diff_assoc — 带索引检查计算数组的差集
说明
array array_diff_assoc
( array
$array1
, array $array2
[, array $ ...
] )
array_diff_assoc() 返回一个数组，该数组包括了所有在
array1 中但是不在任何其它参数数组中的值。注意和
array_diff() 不同的是键名也用于比较。
Example #1 array_diff_assoc() 例子
<?php
$array1 = array ("a" => "green", "b" => "brown", "c" => "blue", "red");
$array2 = array ("a" => "green", "yellow", "red");
$result = array_diff_assoc($array1, $array2);
?>
以上例程会输出：
Array
(
[b] => brown
[c] => blue
[0] => red
)
上面的例子中可以看到键值对 "a" => "green" 在两个数组中都有，因此不在本函数的输出中。与此不同，键值对 0 => "red" 出现在输出中是因为第二个参数中的 "red" 的键名是 1。
键值对 key => value 中的两个值仅在 (string) $elem1 === (string) $elem2 时被认为相等。也就是说使用了严格检查，字符串的表达必须相同。
Note: 注意本函数只检查了多维数组中的一维。当然可以用 array_diff_assoc($array1[0], $array2[0]); 检查更深的维度。
参见 array_diff()，array_intersect() 和 array_intersect_assoc()。
参数
-
array1 -
The array to compare from
-
array2 -
An array to compare against
-
... -
More arrays to compare against
返回值
Returns an array containing all the values from
array1 that are not present in any of the other arrays.
范例
Example #2 array_diff_assoc() example
In this example you see the "a" => "green" pair is present in both arrays and thus it is not in the output from the function. Unlike this, the pair 0 => "red" is in the output because in the second argument "red" has key which is 1.
<?php
$array1 = array("a" => "green", "b" => "brown", "c" => "blue", "red");
$array2 = array("a" => "green", "yellow", "red");
$result = array_diff_assoc($array1, $array2);
print_r($result);
?>
以上例程会输出：
Array
(
[b] => brown
[c] => blue
[0] => red
)
Example #3 array_diff_assoc() example
Two values from key => value pairs are considered equal only if (string) $elem1 === (string) $elem2 . In other words a strict check takes place so the string representations must be the same.
<?php
$array1 = array(0, 1, 2);
$array2 = array("00", "01", "2");
$result = array_diff_assoc($array1, $array2);
print_r($result);
?>
以上例程会输出：
Array
(
[0] => 0
[1] => 1
)
注释
Note: This function only checks one dimension of a n-dimensional array. Of course you can check deeper dimensions by using, for example, array_diff_assoc($array1[0], $array2[0]);.
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User Contributed Notes
array_diff_assoc
news_yodpeirs at thoftware dot de
11-Jul-2011 10:25
jrajpu10 at gmail dot com
25-Oct-2008 06:57
array_diff_assoc can also be used to find the duplicates in an array
<?php
$arr = array('1','2','3','4','3','2','5');
$uniques = array_unique($arr);
// array_diff will not work here, array_diff_assoc works as it takes the key // in account.
$dups = array_diff_assoc($arr, $uniques);
print_r($dups);
?>
Note: The index of the $dups is not in strict sequential order as expected by C programmer.
cedric at daneel dot net
21-May-2007 12:01
To diff between n-dimensional array, juste use this :
<?php
function array_diff_values($tab1, $tab2)
{
$result = array();
foreach($tab1 as $values) if(! in_array($values, $tab2)) $result[] = $values;
return $result;
}
?>
contact at pascalopitz dot com
10-Apr-2007 10:14
The direction of the arguments does actually make a difference:
<?php
$a = array(
'x' => 'x',
'y' => 'y',
'z' => 'z',
't' => 't',
);
$b = array(
'x' => 'x',
'y' => 'y',
'z' => 'z',
't' => 't',
'g' => 'g',
);
print_r(array_diff_assoc($a, $b));
print_r(array_diff_assoc($b, $a));
?>
echoes:
Array
(
)
Array
(
[g] => g
)
chinello at gmail dot com
18-Mar-2007 04:33
The following will recursively do an array_diff_assoc, which will calculate differences on a multi-dimensional level. This not display any notices if a key don't exist and if error_reporting is set to E_ALL:
<?php
function array_diff_assoc_recursive($array1, $array2)
{
foreach($array1 as $key => $value)
{
if(is_array($value))
{
if(!isset($array2[$key]))
{
$difference[$key] = $value;
}
elseif(!is_array($array2[$key]))
{
$difference[$key] = $value;
}
else
{
$new_diff = array_diff_assoc_recursive($value, $array2[$key]);
if($new_diff != FALSE)
{
$difference[$key] = $new_diff;
}
}
}
elseif(!isset($array2[$key]) || $array2[$key] != $value)
{
$difference[$key] = $value;
}
}
return !isset($difference) ? 0 : $difference;
}
?>
[NOTE BY danbrown AT php DOT net: This is a combination of efforts from previous notes deleted. Contributors included (Michael Johnson), (jochem AT iamjochem DAWT com), (sc1n AT yahoo DOT com), and (anders DOT carlsson AT mds DOT mdh DOT se).]
Alexander Podgorny
30-May-2006 08:30
NOTE: the diff_array also removes all the duplicate values that match to the values in the second array:
<?php
$array1 = array("a","b","c","a","a");
$array2 = array("a");
$diff = array_diff($array1,$array2);
// yields: array("b","c") the duplicate "a" values are removed
?>
benjamin at moonfactory dot co dot jp
11-Jan-2005 02:56
Hi all,
For php versions < 4.3...
<?php
/**
* array_diff_assoc for version < 4.3
**/
if (!function_exists('array_diff_assoc'))
{
function array_diff_assoc($a1, $a2)
{
foreach($a1 as $key => $value)
{
if(isset($a2[$key]))
{
if((string) $value !== (string) $a2[$key])
{
$r[$key] = $value;
}
}else
{
$r[$key] = $value;
}
}
return $r ;
}
}
?>
carl at thep dot lu dot se
08-May-2003 08:55
To unset elements in an array if you know the keys but not the values, you can do:
<?php
$a = array("foo", "bar", "baz", "quux");
$b = array(1, 3); // Elements to get rid of
foreach($b as $e)
unset($a[$e]);
?>
Of course this makes most sense if $b has many elements or is dynamically generated.