Array of array unique php code example

Example 1: array_unique multidimensional php

<?php
    function super_unique($array,$key)
    {
       $temp_array = [];
       foreach ($array as &$v) {
           if (!isset($temp_array[$v[$key]]))
           $temp_array[$v[$key]] =& $v;
       }
       $array = array_values($temp_array);
       return $array;

    }


$arr="";
$arr[0]['id']=0;
$arr[0]['titel']="ABC";
$arr[1]['id']=1;
$arr[1]['titel']="DEF";
$arr[2]['id']=2;
$arr[2]['titel']="ABC";
$arr[3]['id']=3;
$arr[3]['titel']="XYZ";

echo "<pre>";
print_r($arr);
echo "unique*********************<br/>";
print_r(super_unique($arr,'titel'));

?>

Example 2: how to remove duplicate values from a multidimensional array in php

We used this to de-duplicate results from a variety of overlapping queries.

$input = array_map("unserialize", array_unique(array_map("serialize", $input)));