Array Problem

[viviosoft]

Hello All -

 

I have the following array:

 

array
  0 => 
    array
      'farmName' => string 'Hallinan' (length=
      'farmInsNum' => string '' (length=0)
      'farmFSA' => string '' (length=0)
  1 => 
    array
      'farmName' => string 'Holt' (length=4)
      'farmInsNum' => string '' (length=0)
      'farmFSA' => string '' (length=0)
  2 => 
    array
      'farmName' => string 'Holt' (length=4)
      'farmInsNum' => string '' (length=0)
      'farmFSA' => string '' (length=0)
  3 => 
    array
      'farmName' => string 'Holt' (length=4)
      'farmInsNum' => string '' (length=0)
      'farmFSA' => string '' (length=0)
  4 => 
    array
      'farmName' => string 'Holt' (length=4)
      'farmInsNum' => string '' (length=0)
      'farmFSA' => string '' (length=0)
  5 => 
    array
      'farmName' => string 'Holt' (length=4)
      'farmInsNum' => string '' (length=0)
      'farmFSA' => string '' (length=0)
  6 => 
    array
      'farmName' => string 'Home' (length=4)
      'farmInsNum' => string '' (length=0)
      'farmFSA' => string '' (length=0)
  7 => 
    array
      'farmName' => string 'Home' (length=4)
      'farmInsNum' => string '' (length=0)
      'farmFSA' => string '' (length=0)
  8 
    array
      'farmName' => string 'Home' (length=4)
      'farmInsNum' => string '' (length=0)
      'farmFSA' => string '' (length=0)

 

The data comes from a flat file that has (as you can see) many of the same names like Home and Holt.  Is there a way to extract the first Holt and Home from the array and put those values in a new array?  So my new array would look something like:

 

array
  0 => 
    array
      'farmName' => string 'Hallinan' (length=
      'farmInsNum' => string '' (length=0)
      'farmFSA' => string '' (length=0)
  1 => 
    array
      'farmName' => string 'Holt' (length=4)
      'farmInsNum' => string '' (length=0)
      'farmFSA' => string '' (length=0)
  2 => 
    array
      'farmName' => string 'Home' (length=4)
      'farmInsNum' => string '' (length=0)
      'farmFSA' => string '' (length=0)

 

I look through php.net and really couldn't find a function that could handle what I was after.  I'm sure I'd have to use a combination of each() and reset() or maybe not?  Any help would be very welcome.  Thanks!

 

[viviosoft]

I think this will do what I'm after.  If there's a cleaner way or another approach, by all means please...

 

$dup_name = array();

foreach ($farmData as $farm) {
    $single_name = array_merge($dup_name, explode(",", $farm['farmName']));
}

var_dump(array_unique($single_name));

[viviosoft]

It would be nice if I could retain the key names in the initial array.  Here's the output now.  The method I'm using "works" but I loose the other keys in the array.

 

<?php
$dup_name = array();

foreach ($farmData as $farm) {
    $single_name = array_merge($dup_name, explode(",", $farm['farmName']));
}

var_dump(array_unique($single_name));
?>

 

Output:

 

<?php
array
  0 => string 'Hallinan' (length=
  1 => string 'Holt' (length=4)
  6 => string 'Home' (length=4)
  9 => string 'Kenyon' (length=6)
  19 => string 'Lane' (length=4)
  21 => string 'Leach' (length=5)
  23 => string 'Robinson' (length=
  24 => string 'Shorey' (length=6)
  26 => string 'Stream' (length=6)
?>

[viviosoft]

Wow!  I guess I should have waited to post .  I figured out a solution.  Well, I didn't I found the solution on php.net.  Here's what I found for those that might have the same problem.

 

<?php
var_dump(remove_duplicate($farmData, 'farmName'));

function remove_duplicate($array, $field)
{
    foreach ($array as $sub)
       $cmp[] = $sub[$field];
    $unique = array_unique($cmp);
   
foreach ($unique as $k => $rien)
        $new[] = $array[$k];
    return $new;
}
?>