Question

i would like to ask for your help since I’m having difficulty resolving this matter. I had created a function to facilitate on array diff but it does not suffice to my needs. Thanks and more power!

<?php
   $arraySession = array(
      'sampleA' => array('1', '2', '3'),
      'sampleB' => array('1', '2', '3'),
   );

$arrayPost = array(
    'sampleA' => array('1'),
    'sampleB' => array('1','2'),
);

result should be:

array(
   'sampleA' => array('2', '3')
   'sampleB' => array('3'),
)

my existing function:

    public function array_diff_multidimensional($session, $post) { 
      $result = array();
      foreach($session as $sKey => $sValue){
          foreach($post as $pKey => $pValue) {
              if((string) $sKey == (string) $pKey) {
                  $result[$sKey] = array_diff($sValue, $pValue);
              } else {
                  $result[$sKey] = $sValue;
              }
          }
      }
      return $result;
    }

Any help would be much appreciated! Happy coding!

Answer 1

Not my function and not tested by me, but this was one of the first comments at php.net/array_diff (credit goes to thefrox at gmail dot com)

<?php
function multidimensional_array_diff($a1, $a2) {
    $r = array();

    foreach ($a2 as $key => $second) {
        foreach ($a1 as $key => $first) {
          if (isset($a2[$key])) {
              foreach ($first as $first_value) {
                  foreach ($second as $second_value) {
                      if ($first_value == $second_value) {
                          $true = true;
                          break;
                      }
                  }
                  if (!isset($true)) {
                      $r[$key][] = $first_value;
                  }
                  unset($true);
              }
          } else {
              $r[$key] = $first;
          }
        }
    }
    return $r;
}
?>