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compare the values of two arrays

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misslois74

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Sep 27, 2008
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im working on a script right now where in i would need to compare values of one array with another values from another array how will i go about the script for these.... thanks in advance.
 
Well that's going to depend on exactly how you want to compare them?

This would check whether or not a value from one array exists in another, and if it doesn't it puts the value in a third array.

Code:
$array_difference=array_diff($array_one,$array_two);

However I'm not sure if that is what you want.





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there are a bunch of array functions that i find i never use. probably to my detriment. i'm never _quite_ sure how these abstracted functions (like array_diff) might work on edge cases. I'm sure they work fine and i should take the time, but somehow I always end up using something like a foreach loop with an empty, isset or in_array function in each loop iteration. Far from optimised compared with a pre-compiled alternative, but at least i know that they will work the way i want.
 
well, actually what im trying to do is compare the field values from two tables, here is the scenario: i have a table which lists all the categories and another table which lists all the categories which is dynamically selected by a user now what i would like to happen is on the front end if a category is already listed the link for that category should be deactivated, any suggestion on how will i go about this?
 
personally i didn't understand the explanation.
 
thanks! for all the responses i have figured it out what to do with the problem
 
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