php array merge and remove duplicates code example

Example 1: php remove duplicates from array

<?php
$fruits_list = array('Orange',  'Apple', ' Banana', 'Cherry', ' Banana');
$result = array_unique($fruits_list);
print_r($result);
?>
  
Output:

Array ( [0] => Orange [1] => Apple [2] => Banana [3] => Cherry )

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)));