I am wanting to add each user into an array and check for duplicates before I do.
$spotcount = 10;
for ($topuser_count = 0; $topuser_count < $spotcount; $topuser_count++) //total spots
{
$spottop10 = $ids[$topuser_count];
$top_10 = $gowalla->getSpotInfo($spottop10);
$usercount = 0;
$c = 0;
$array = array();
foreach($top_10['top_10'] as $top10) //loop each spot
{
//$getuser = substr($top10['url'],7); //strip the url
$getuser = ltrim($top10['url'], " users/" );
if ($usercount < 3) //loop only certain number of top users
{
if (($getuser != $userurl) && (array_search($getuser, $array) !== true)) {
//echo " no duplicates! <br /><br />";
echo ' <a href= "http://gowalla.com'.$top10['url'].'"><img width="90" height="90" src= " '.$top10['image_url'].' " title="'.$top10['first_name'].'" alt="Error" /></a> ';
$array[$c++] = $getuser;
}
else {
//echo "duplicate <br /><br />";
}
}
$usercount++;
}
print_r($array);
}
The previous code prints:
Array ( [0] => 62151 [1] => 204501 [2] => 209368 ) Array ( [0] => 62151 [1] => 33116 [2] => 122485 ) Array ( [0] => 120728 [1] => 205247 [2] => 33116 ) Array ( [0] => 150883 [1] => 248551 [2] => 248558 ) Array ( [0] => 157580 [1] => 77490 [2] => 52046 )
Which is wrong. It does check for duplicates, but only the contents of each foreach loop instead of the entire array. How is this if I am storing everything into $array?
array_search()
returns the key for whatever you're searching for, if it's in the array. You're doing a strict inequality comparison !==
against true
, so if array_search DOES find an entry in the array (say, key is 7), then 7 !== TRUE
is true, and you proceed to add the entry to your new array.
What you want is array_search(...) !== FALSE
, which will evaluate to true only if array_search fails.
Also, there's no need to use your $c++
array index counter. You can use $array[] = $getuser
which will automatically stick $getuser into a new entry at the end the array.
use below function for multidimensional array
function in_multiarray($elem, $array)
{
$top = sizeof($array) - 1;
$bottom = 0;
while($bottom <= $top)
{
if($array[$bottom] == $elem)
return true;
else
if(is_array($array[$bottom]))
if(in_multiarray($elem, ($array[$bottom])))
return true;
$bottom++;
}
return false;
}
for more information see the in_array()
Faster and cleaner Recursive multidimensional array search, using the Standard PHP Library (SPL).
function in_array_recursive($needle, $haystack) {
$it = new RecursiveIteratorIterator(new RecursiveArrayIterator($haystack));
foreach($it as $element) {
if($element == $needle) {
return true;
}
}
return false;
}