PHP - Check if two arrays are equal

Question

I\'d like to check if two arrays are equal. I mean: same size, same index, same values. How can I do that?

Using !== as suggested by a user, I expect th

Answer 1

Another method for checking equality regardless of value order works by using http://php.net/manual/en/function.array-intersect.php, like so:

$array1 = array(2,5,3);
$array2 = array(5,2,3);
if($array1 === array_intersect($array1, $array2) && $array2 === array_intersect($array2, $array1)) {
    echo 'Equal';
} else {
    echo 'Not equal';
}

Here's a version that works also with multidimensional arrays using http://php.net/manual/en/function.array-uintersect.php:

$array1 = array(
    array(5, 2),
    array(3, 6),
    array(2, 9, 4)
);
$array2 = array(
    array(3, 6),
    array(2, 9, 4),
    array(5, 2)
);

if($array1 === array_uintersect($array1, $array2, 'compare') && $array2 === array_uintersect($array2, $array1, 'compare')) {
    echo 'Equal';
} else {
    echo 'Not equal';
}

function compare($v1, $v2) {
    if ($v1===$v2) {
        return 0;
    }
    if ($v1 > $v2) return 1;
    return -1;
}