Trying to group an xml array by attribute and pir

[nade93]

hi all
 
I am trying to get one printed result from an attribute that is pulling from a nested array
 
I am pulling a top layer for the header then placing the items under the header

foreach ($x as $p=>$t): // get the type for drill down to market
 
?>
<div id='feedhead'><? echo $t['name']; ?></div>
<?
 
 
foreach ($t as $m):

so the $m['url'] is the thing i am wanting to group by as is it pulling things that are duplicating.

 

so if did below for example

echo $m['url'].'<br>';

would output as

 

http://google.com

http://google.com

http://google.com

http://google.com

 

however would want just the single output from the loop

 

http://google.com

 

 

how do i go about this?

 

thanks in advance

[requinix]

Shouldn't you fix the data so it's not duplicated?

 

If you had PHP 5.5 you could use array_column. Otherwise manually build up a new array of only the unique values and loop over that one instead.

$munique = array();
foreach ($t as $m) {
    $munique[$m['url']] = $m;
}

foreach ($munique as $m):

Edited March 27, 2014 by requinix

[nade93]

thanks for the replay however When I implement that no results (inluding the header) pull at all

[requinix]

Then it might have something to do with the lots of code you didn't post.

 

So. How about posting everything you have in that file?

[nade93]

$xml = simplexml_load_file('http://cachepricefeeds.williamhill.com/openbet_cdn?action=template&template=getHierarchyByMarketType&classId=1&marketSort=--&filterBIR=Y');



$x   = $xml->response->williamhill->class->type;



foreach ($x as $p=>$t): // get the type for drill down to market



?>

<div id='feedhead'><? echo $t['name']; ?></div>

<?





foreach ($t as $m): // get the attributes for the market







//-------- GET THE DATES IN ORDER



$d     = explode('-', $m['date']);

$date  = $d[2].'/'.$d[1].'/'.$d[0];



echo  $m['url']; 



endforeach;





endforeach;