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[David Mintz]

Interesting -- thank you gentlemen.

Actually this whole thing stems from the issue of inserting/deleting related
rows from an intersection table in a many-to-many scenario, and keeping the
view consistent with the model in an Ajaxy way. Maybe I will commence a new
thread.

On 9/19/07, Ivan Kedrin <ikedrin at clinicaladvisors.com> wrote:
>
>  take a look at http://us.php.net/operators.comparison for some
> suggestions:
>
>
>
> function array_equal($a, $b) {
>     return (is_array($a) && is_array($b) && array_diff($a, $b) ===
> array_diff($b, $a));
> }
>
>
>
> function array_identical($a, $b) {
>     return (is_array($a) && is_array($b) && array_diff_assoc($a, $b) ===
> array_diff_assoc($b, $a));
> }
>
>
>
> alternatively, you could always serialize() and compare using == if your
> definition of "equals" requires them to be identical in every respect
> including order of the keys and if you don't care about overhead related to
> serialization. there are probably also some shortcuts that could save some
> cpu cycles but it depends on the type of data you got in your arrays, array
> size, etc.
>
>
>
> -ivan kedrin
>
>
>  ------------------------------
>
> *From:* talk-bounces at lists.nyphp.org [mailto:talk-bounces at lists.nyphp.org]
> *On Behalf Of *David Mintz
> *Sent:* Wednesday, September 19, 2007 4:35 PM
> *To:* NYPHP Talk
> *Subject:* [nycphp-talk] what's up with array_diff()
>
>
>
>
> The description of array_diff at
> http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.array-diff.php says it computes the
> difference between the arrays you pass it, and returns that difference as an
> array.
>
> The behavior is that it finds and returns an array of elements that are
> present in the first argument that are not present in the following
> arguments, so the order in which you pass in your arrays is all-important.
>
> I am trying to find out if two arrays are different from each other or
> not. I can sort() and then compare with ==, but I thought this might be more
> elegant.
>
> Now I am looking at
>
>        if (array_diff($one,$two) or array_diff($two,$one)) {
>            /* do something */
>        }
>
> but I wonder if anyone can suggest a better way.
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> David Mintz
> http://davidmintz.org/
>
> The subtle source is clear and bright
> The tributary streams flow through the darkness
>
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-- 
David Mintz
http://davidmintz.org/

The subtle source is clear and bright
The tributary streams flow through the darkness
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