I've worked on array_diff_assoc_recursive() mentioned by chinello at gmail dot com and I think it might be worth mentioning here. I wrote a dozen test cases and it seems to be holding up pretty well.
<?php
// dwarven Differences:
// * Replaced isset() with array_key_exists() to account for keys with null contents
// 55 dot php at imars dot com Differences:
// Key differences:
// * Removed redundant test;
// * Returns false bool on exact match (not zero integer);
// * Use type-precise comparison "!==" instead of loose "!=";
// * Detect when $array2 contains extraneous elements;
// * Returns "before" and "after" instead of only "before" arrays on mismatch.
function array_compare($array1, $array2) {
$diff = false;
// Left-to-right
foreach ($array1 as $key => $value) {
if (!array_key_exists($key,$array2)) {
$diff[0][$key] = $value;
} elseif (is_array($value)) {
if (!is_array($array2[$key])) {
$diff[0][$key] = $value;
$diff[1][$key] = $array2[$key];
} else {
$new = array_compare($value, $array2[$key]);
if ($new !== false) {
if (isset($new[0])) $diff[0][$key] = $new[0];
if (isset($new[1])) $diff[1][$key] = $new[1];
};
};
} elseif ($array2[$key] !== $value) {
$diff[0][$key] = $value;
$diff[1][$key] = $array2[$key];
};
};
// Right-to-left
foreach ($array2 as $key => $value) {
if (!array_key_exists($key,$array1)) {
$diff[1][$key] = $value;
};
// No direct comparsion because matching keys were compared in the
// left-to-right loop earlier, recursively.
};
return $diff;
};
?>
Note that to catch small type differences, you need to use var_dump() rather than print_r(). For example:
<?php
first = Array( 'first' => 'second', 'third' => 'fourth',
'fifth' => Array( 'oui' => 'yes', 'non' => 'no' ),
'sixth' => Array( 3, 4, 2, 1 )
);
$second = Array( 'first' => 'second', 'third' => 'fourth',
'fifth' => Array( 'oui' => 'yes', 'non' => 'no' ),
'sixth' => Array( 3, 4, '2', 1 )
);
$diff = array_compare($first, $second);
if ($diff === false) echo "MATCH\n";
else var_dump($diff);
?>
The above would immediately show that element "sixth", index 2, is int(2) in $first but string(1)"2" in $second. As per the original function, order for associative arrays does not matter, and of course it does with lists.
[EDIT: Credits to php dot notes at dwarven dot co dot uk]
array_diff_assoc
(PHP 4 >= 4.3.0, PHP 5)
array_diff_assoc — 追加された添字の確認を含めて配列の差を計算する
説明
array1 を array2 と比較し、 その差を返します。array_diff() とは異なり、 配列のキーを用いて比較を行います。
パラメータ
- array1
-
比較元の配列。
- array2
-
比較する対象となる配列。
- ...
-
さらに比較する対象となる配列。
返り値
array1 の要素のうち、 その他の配列のいずれにも含まれないものだけを残した配列を返します。
例
例1 array_diff_assoc() の例
この例で、"a" => "green" の組が両方の配列に現れており、 このため、この関数の出力には含まれていません。 これとは異なり、0 => "red" は出力の中にありますが、 これは、二番目の引数において "red" が 1 というキーを有しているためです。
<?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);
?>
上の例の出力は以下となります。
Array
(
[b] => brown
[c] => blue
[0] => red
)
例2 array_diff_assoc() の例
key => value の組からの二つの値は、 (string) $elem1 === (string) $elem2 が成り立つ場合のみ等しいと見なされます。 言い替えると、厳密なチェックが行われるため、 文字列表現が同じである必要があります。
<?php
$array1 = array(0, 1, 2);
$array2 = array("00", "01", "2");
$result = array_diff_assoc($array1, $array2);
print_r($result);
?>
上の例の出力は以下となります。
Array
(
[0] => 0
[1] => 1
)
注意
注意: この関数は、N 次元配列の一次元だけを調べます。もちろん、例えば array_diff_assoc($array1[0], $array2[0]); とすることにより、より深い次元でチェックを行うことも可能です。
参考
- array_diff() - 配列の差を計算する
- array_intersect() - 配列の共通項を計算する
- array_intersect_assoc() - 追加された添字の確認も含めて配列の共通項を確認する
array_diff_assoc
18-Mar-2009 12:09
26-Oct-2008 04:57
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 $dups is not in strict sequential order as expected by C programmer.
21-May-2007 10:01
To diff between n-dimensional array, juste use this :
<?php
function array_diff_values($tab1, $tab2)
{
$result = array();
foreach($tab1 as $values) if(! in_array($values, $tab2)) $result[] = $values;
return $result;
}
?>
11-Apr-2007 08:14
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, $a));
?>
echoes:
Array
(
)
Array
(
[g] => g
)
19-Mar-2007 03:33
The following will recursively do an array_diff_assoc, which will calculate differences on a multi-dimensional level. This not display any notices if a key don't exist and if error_reporting is set to E_ALL:
<?php
function array_diff_assoc_recursive($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).]
31-May-2006 06:30
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,$array2);
// yields: array("b","c") the duplicate "a" values are removed
?>
12-Jan-2005 02:56
Hi all,
For php versions < 4.3...
<?php
/**
* array_diff_assoc for version < 4.3
**/
if (!function_exists('array_diff_assoc'))
{
function array_diff_assoc($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 ;
}
}
?>
09-May-2003 06:55
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.
