Help with arrays and array_unique

[citricsquid]

I have some data that I'm putting into an array, the data is as follows: non unique ID (can occur multiple times), name, description and colour. Now, once I've compiled all the data I want to strip out the duplicates by ID, so if I have 3 with the ID of 8, I only want to display 1 of these.

 

$id = 1;
$name = "name";
$description = "description";
$color = "colour";

$array[$id]["name"] = $name;
$array[$id]["description"] = $description;
$array[$id]["color"] = $color;

 

However if I try and do array_unique (assuming I have multiple $id) it doesn't work. Is there anything I should know? Must an array key be unique? If so; how can I use the id as the thing for array_unique to try against? I've read the manual multiple times and I can't work it out.

 

Thanks :3

[rajivgonsalves]

$array[$id] in the above example would be of type array so basically its one, array keys have to be unique please elaborate on what your expected results you want to see, Its not very clear on what your trying to accomplish

[phant0m]

I cannot understand your goal either.

 

Assuming you have color date and name of ID 2. Do you only want to have one value instead of all three left?

[citricsquid]

Apologies, I'm not the best at explaining.

 

I have some data, an example of the data is as follows:

 

ID | Type | Age | Name

 

01 | CAT | 12 | JOHN
02 | DOG | 13 | EDWARD
03 | HORSE | 02 | MARY
01 | CAT | 12 | JOHN

 

I want to stick this data into an array and then I want to strip out the duplicates by ID, so if the ID is the same as another I want to remove it from the array. However the key (?) cannot be the same as another and I only *think* array_unique supports removing by duplicate key.

 

Does this make sense?

[rajivgonsalves]

if your adding your data to the array the way you showed earlier you should not have problems with duplicate data only one id would be shown the last one, however if there are multiple records of the id with different datasets your logic would fail, how are you reading the data into your script, I don't see it in your post earlier