Hello guys,
I´ve been looking for a array_diff that works with recursive arrays, I´ve tried the ottodenn at gmail dot com function but to my case it doesn´t worked as expected, so I made my own. I´ve haven´t tested this extensively, but I´ll explain my scenario, and this works great at that case :D
We got 2 arrays like these:
<?php
$aArray1['marcie'] = array('banana' => 1, 'orange' => 1, 'pasta' => 1);
$aArray1['kenji'] = array('apple' => 1, 'pie' => 1, 'pasta' => 1);
$aArray2['marcie'] = array('banana' => 1, 'orange' => 1);
?>
As array_diff, this function returns all the items that is in aArray1 and IS NOT at aArray2, so the result we should expect is:
<?php
$aDiff['marcie'] = array('pasta' => 1);
$aDiff['kenji'] = array('apple' => 1, 'pie' => 1, 'pasta' => 1);
?>
Ok, now some comments about this function:
- Different from the PHP array_diff, this function DON´T uses the === operator, but the ==, so 0 is equal to '0' or false, but this can be changed with no impacts.
- This function checks the keys of the arrays, array_diff only compares the values.
I realy hopes that this could help some1 as I´ve been helped a lot with some users experiences. (Just please double check if it would work for your case, as I sad I just tested to a scenario like the one I exposed)
<?php
function arrayRecursiveDiff($aArray1, $aArray2) {
$aReturn = array();
foreach ($aArray1 as $mKey => $mValue) {
if (array_key_exists($mKey, $aArray2)) {
if (is_array($mValue)) {
$aRecursiveDiff = arrayRecursiveDiff($mValue, $aArray2[$mKey]);
if (count($aRecursiveDiff)) { $aReturn[$mKey] = $aRecursiveDiff; }
} else {
if ($mValue != $aArray2[$mKey]) {
$aReturn[$mKey] = $mValue;
}
}
} else {
$aReturn[$mKey] = $mValue;
}
}
return $aReturn;
}
?>
