Look for duplicate values in a associative array and add them to a count

Question

Hi I am trying to count the number of duplicate values in a associative array that looks like this:

array(3) { [0]=> array(3) { [\"Title\"]=> string(25) \"         


        

Answer 1

If you want to detect dups in an array that you are creating, something like this avoid having to go through the array multiple times:

$arr=array();
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))  {                  
  $arr[$row['prodTitle']] = isset($arr[$row['prodTitle']]) 
                               ? $arr[$row['prodTitle']] +1 
                               : 0;                    
}
$dups = array_keys(array_filter($arr)); //any key => 0 will be filtred out

If you want to just get the dups directly by SQL, have a look at this:

Your current query--

SELECT prodTitle 
  FROM product 
WHERE prodTitle != '{$keyword}' 
  AND creditCard IN( SELECT creditCard FROM product WHERE prodTitle ='{$keyword}');

which given data like this

prod cc
A    1
A    2
A    3
A    1
A    1
B    15
B    1
B    2
B    21
C    10
C    1

returns this set (with $keyword=='A'):

prod 
B
B
C

An aggregate query that returns only records where credit cards used on non-X were also used on X at least twice --

SELECT p1.prodTitle, COUNT(p2.creditCard) AS numrecords
  FROM product p1
    JOIN product p2
    ON (p1.creditCard = p2.creditCard)
WHERE p1.prodTitle != '{$keyword}'
  AND p2.prodTitle = '{$keyword}'
GROUP BY p1.prodTitle 
  HAVING COUNT(p2.creditCard) > 1;

given the same data, returns this set:

prod  num
B    2

Doing an aggregate query avoids all the messing about with loops. Here's a link to the MySQL list of aggregate functions.