array_uniquee php,PHP array_unique的奇怪行为

I'm using following peace of code to output an array:

echo "======output without array_unique=====";

var_dump($selected);

echo "=====output with array_unique=====";

var_dump(array_unique($selected));die;

And the output is:

======output without array_unique=====

array

0 =>

array

'uri' => string 'http://localhost/conferences/tags/0caf4c990e0a385156b33fee58e7e3fb' (length=63)

'tag' => string '1' (length=1)

'weight' => float 4

'selected' => string 'select' (length=6)

1 =>

array

'uri' => string 'http://localhost/conferences/tags/0caf4c990e0a385156b33fee58e7e3fb' (length=63)

'tag' => string '1' (length=1)

'weight' => float 4

'selected' => string 'select' (length=6)

2 =>

array

'uri' => string 'http://localhost/conferences/tags/ffc709d5131f752df8aae22d7da4240f' (length=63)

'tag' => string '2' (length=1)

'weight' => float 4

'selected' => string '' (length=0)

3 =>

array

'uri' => string 'http://localhost/conferences/tags/035c60c7f090412cc905cee008fbeba8' (length=63)

'tag' => string '3' (length=1)

'weight' => float 0

'selected' => string '' (length=0)

4 =>

array

'uri' => string 'http://localhost/conferences/tags/4137dbc16ef1a2079eb6cacb62dd8521' (length=63)

'tag' => string '4' (length=1)

'weight' => float 0

'selected' => string '' (length=0)

=====output with array_unique=====

array

0 =>

array

'uri' => string 'http://localhost/conferences/tags/0caf4c990e0a385156b33fee58e7e3fb' (length=63)

'tag' => string '1' (length=1)

'weight' => float 4

'selected' => string 'select' (length=6)

Can someone explain me, why i get array with only one element from the array_unique?

解决方案

The array elements are cast to strings for comparison - here's the relevant snippet from the manual page for array_unique

Note: Two elements are considered

equal if and only if (string) $elem1

=== (string) $elem2. In words: when the string representation is the same.

The first element will be used.

Once your array elements are cast to strings, they simply have the value "Array", which of course makes every element look the same, and you wind up with just the first element.

Here's one way you could remove duplicates from an array like yours

$seen=array();

foreach($myarray as $key=>$val)

{

if (isset($seen[$val['uri']])

{

//remove dupe

unset($myarray[$key]);

}

else

{

//remember this

$seen[$val['uri']]=$key;

}

}

unset($seen); //don't need this any more