multidimensional array difference php

Question

I have two multidimensional arrays and I want the difference. For eg. I have taken two-dimensional two arrays below

$array1 = Array (
       [a1] => Array         


        

Answer 1

One small tweak to @Zaheer Abbass solution, I got the result I wanted. Thank you very much Zaheer. Here is the final code that i used.

function check_diff_multi($array1, $array2){
    $result = array();
    foreach($array1 as $key => $val) {
        if(isset($array2[$key])){
           if(is_array($val)  && is_array($array2[$key])){
                $result[$key] = check_diff_multi($val, $array2[$key]);
            }
        } else {
            $result[$key] = $val;
        }
    }

    return $result;
} 

Answer 2

$out = array_diff_assoc_recursive($array1, $array2);

The solution requires recursing values of array which may themselves be arrays.

function array_diff_assoc_recursive($array1, $array2)
{
    foreach($array1 as $key => $value)
    {
        if(is_array($value))
        {
            if(!isset($array2[$key]))
            {
                $difference[$key] = $value;
            }
            elseif(!is_array($array2[$key]))
            {
                $difference[$key] = $value;
            }
            else
            {
                $new_diff = array_diff_assoc_recursive($value, $array2[$key]);
                if($new_diff != FALSE)
                {
                    $difference[$key] = $new_diff;
                }
            }
        }
        elseif(!isset($array2[$key]) || $array2[$key] != $value)
        {
            $difference[$key] = $value;
        }
    }
    return !isset($difference) ? 0 : $difference;
}

Answer 3

print_r(array_diff_key($array1,$array2));

Answer 4

So if you have arrays with empty values or with empty arrays.

private function check_diff_multi($array1, $array2){
    $result = array();
    foreach($array1 as $key => $val) {
        if(array_key_exists($key,$array2)){
            if(is_array($val) && is_array($array2[$key]) && !empty($val)){
                $result[$key] = $this->check_diff_multi($val, $array2[$key]);
            }
        } else {
            $result[$key] = $val;
        }
    }
    return $result;
}

Answer 5

Please check if I understand you correctly then this code snippet can help to you solve your problem. I have tested it for your specified problem only. if there are other testcases for which you want to run this, you can tell me to adjust the code.

$a1 = array(
    'a1' => array('a_name' => 'aaa', 'a_value' => 'aaaaa'),
    'b1' => array('b_name' => 'bbb', 'b_value' => 'bbbbbb'),
    'c1' => array('c_name' => 'ccc', 'c_value' => 'cccccc')
);

$a2 = array(
    'b1' => array('b_name' => 'zzzzz'),
);

$result = check_diff_multi($a1, $a2);
print '<pre>';
print_r($result);
print '</pre>';


function check_diff_multi($array1, $array2){
    $result = array();
    foreach($array1 as $key => $val) {
         if(isset($array2[$key])){
           if(is_array($val) && $array2[$key]){
               $result[$key] = check_diff_multi($val, $array2[$key]);
           }
       } else {
           $result[$key] = $val;
       }
    }

    return $result;
}

EDIT: added tweak to code.

Answer 6

There are a lot of cases, where original answers will not work properly, so I wrote a better solution. One of the problems was, that if you deleted a property in array 2, the other functions didn't recognized it.

function check_diff_multi($array1, $array2){
    $result = array();

    foreach($array1 as $key => $val) {
        if(is_array($val) && isset($array2[$key])) {
            $tmp = check_diff_multi($val, $array2[$key]);
            if($tmp) {
                $result[$key] = $tmp;
            }
        }
        elseif(!isset($array2[$key])) {
            $result[$key] = null;
        }
        elseif($val !== $array2[$key]) {
            $result[$key] = $array2[$key];
        }

        if(isset($array2[$key])) {
            unset($array2[$key]);
        }
    }

    $result = array_merge($result, $array2);

    return $result;
}

I have also added test cases to check result:

• Here you can find result for my function: http://sandbox.onlinephpfunctions.com/code/3bf7b032f772f8a4d184ca4151de9c3e9e9a58bc
• Here you can find result for the accepted answer: http://sandbox.onlinephpfunctions.com/code/88efa3feb5f28bf256b5a220bd881d4a4a04130f

As you can see, my fuctions delivers better results.