Showing posts with label remove specifc items or elements in array. Show all posts
Showing posts with label remove specifc items or elements in array. Show all posts

Monday, January 7, 2013

PHP: Remove intersect element(s) in array

$array1 = array('abc', 'efg', 'hij', 'klm', 'nop', 'qrs');
$array2 = array('tuv', 'abc', 'wxyz', 'qrs', 'hij');


// Find intersection
$intersection = array_intersect($array1, $array2); 

echo '<pre>'.print_r($intersection, true).'</pre>';
/* output: 
Array
(
    [0] => abc
    [2] => hij
    [5] => qrs
)
*/

// Extract
if(!empty($intersection)){

   foreach ($intersection as $key => $value) {
      unset($$array1[$key]);
   }

}

echo '<pre>'.print_r($array1, true).'</pre>';
/* output: 
Array
(
    [1] => efg
    [3] => klm
    [4] => nop
)
*/

Refer site:
Unset - http://sg2.php.net/manual/en/function.unset.php
Array intersect - http://php.net/manual/en/function.array-intersect.php