(PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)
array_uintersect — Computes the intersection of arrays, compares data by a callback function
Computes the intersection of arrays, compares data by a callback function.
arrayThe first array.
arraysArrays to compare against.
value_compare_funcThe comparison function must return an integer less than, equal to, or greater than zero if the first argument is considered to be respectively less than, equal to, or greater than the second.
Returning non-integer values from the comparison
function, such as float , will result in an internal cast to
int of the callback's return value. So values such as
0.99 and 0.1 will both be cast to an
integer value of 0, which will compare such values as equal.
The sorting callback must handle any value from any array in any order, regardless of the order they were originally provided. This is because each individual array is first sorted before being compared against other arrays. For example:
<?php
$arrayA = ["string", 1];
$arrayB = [["value" => 1]];
// $item1 and $item2 can be any of "string", 1 or ["value" => 1]
$compareFunc = static function ($item1, $item2) {
$value1 = is_string($item1) ? strlen($item1) : (is_array($item1) ? $item1["value"] : $item1);
$value2 = is_string($item2) ? strlen($item2) : (is_array($item2) ? $item2["value"] : $item2);
return $value1 <=> $value2;
};
?>
Returns an array containing all the values of array
that are present in all the arguments.
Example #1 array_uintersect() example
<?php
$array1 = array("a" => "green", "b" => "brown", "c" => "blue", "red");
$array2 = array("a" => "GREEN", "B" => "brown", "yellow", "red");
print_r(array_uintersect($array1, $array2, "strcasecmp"));
?>The above example will output:
Array ( [a] => green [b] => brown [0] => red )
I want to stress that in the user function, you do need to return either a 1 or a -1 properly; you cannot simply return 0 if the results are equal and 1 if they are not.
The following code is incorrect:
<?php
function myfunction($v1,$v2)
{
if ($v1===$v2)
{
return 0;
}
return 1;
}
$a1=array(1, 2, 4);
$a2=array(1, 3, 4);
print_r(array_uintersect($a1,$a2,"myfunction"));
?>
This code is correct:
<?php
function myfunction($v1,$v2)
{
if ($v1===$v2)
{
return 0;
}
if ($v1 > $v2) return 1;
return -1;
}
$a1=array(1, 2, 4);
$a2=array(1, 3, 4);
print_r(array_uintersect($a1,$a2,"myfunction"));
?>If you're rolling your own comparison function, keep in mind that the spaceship operator (i.e. <=>) can be your best friend. It's been around since PHP7. https://www.php.net/manual/en/language.operators.comparison.php
So, for instance, instead of a clunky function like:
<?php
function myFunction($v1, $v2) {
if ($v1 === $v2) {
return 0;
}
if ($v1 > $v2) return 1;
return -1;
}
?>
You can simplify it to:
<?php
function myFunction($v1, $v2) {
return $v1 <=> $v2;
}
?>When trying to do a case insensitive comparison between arrays of words, the strcasecmp function works very nicely with this one like so:
$arr1 = array('blue', 'green', 'red');
$arr2 = array('BLUE', 'Purple', 'Red');
$loose_matches = array_uintersect($arr1, $arr2, 'strcasecmp');
print_r($loose_matches) // array('blue', 'red');As for the other "compare function" callbacks, the return value from the callback function doesn't need to be -1, 0, or 1.
cmp($a,$b) just needs to be <0, =0, or >0 depending on whether $a<$b, $a=$b, or $a>$b.