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Zendie
Zendie

Reputation: 1174

PHP find equal variables

Is there a way to easily check if the values of multiple variables are equal? For example, in the code below I have 10 values, and it's cumbersome to use the equal sign to check if they're all equal.

 <?
  foreach($this->layout as $l): 
  $long1=$l['long1_campaignid'];    
  $long2=$l['long2_campaignid']; 
  $long3=$l['long3_campaignid'];    
  $long4=$l['long4_campaignid']; 
  $long5=$l['long5_campaignid'];    
  $long6=$l['long6_campaignid'];    
  $long7=$l['long7_campaignid'];    
  $long8=$l['long8_campaignid'];    
  $long9=$l['long9_campaignid'];    
  $long10=$l['long10_campaignid'];
  endforeach;
 ?>

for example if $long1=3,$long2=7,$long3=3,$long4=7,$long5=3 etc,

i need to retrieve $long1=$long3=$long5 and $long2=$long4

Upvotes: 0

Views: 369

Answers (3)

Peter Krauss
Peter Krauss

Reputation: 13982

The example showed at the question is about "grouping" not directly about "find equal variables".

I think this simple "grouping without change the order" algorithm is the answer... Other algorithms using sort() are also easy to implement with PHP.

<?
  foreach($this->layout as $l) {
     $m = array();
     foreach($1 as $k=>$v) // keys 'longX' and values
        if (array_key_exists($v,$m)) $m[$v][] = $k; 
        else                         $m[$v]   = array($k);
     foreach ($m as $val=>$keys)
        if (count($keys)>1) echo "<br/> have SAME values: ".join(',',$keys)
  }
?>

About "find equal variables"

Another (simple) code, see Example #2 at PHP man of array_unique.

<?
  $m = array_unique($this->layout);
  $n = count($m);
  if ($n == 1)
      echo 'All of the values are the exactly the same';
  elseif ($n>0)
      echo 'Different values';
  else 
      echo 'No values';
?>

The "equal criteria" perhaps need some filtering at strings, to normalize spaces, lower/upper cases, etc. Only the use of this "flexible equal" justify a loop. Example:

<?
  $m = array();
  foreach($this->layout as $l) 
      $m[trim(strtolower($1))]=1;
  $n = count(array_keys($m));
  if ($n == 1)
      echo 'All of the values are the exactly the same';
  elseif ($n>0)
      echo 'Different values';
  else 
      echo 'No values';
?>

Upvotes: 1

jeroen
jeroen

Reputation: 91782

If @John Conde's answer is not what you are looking for and you want to check for one or more of the same values in the collection, you could sort the array and then loop through it, keeping the last value and comparing it to the current value.

Upvotes: 0

John Conde
John Conde

Reputation: 219894

I think this is what you're looking for:

<?
  foreach($this->layout as $l): 
  $m = array_unique($l);
  if (count($m) === 1) {
      echo 'All of the values are the same<br>';
  }
  endforeach;
?>

I assuming that you are looking to see if all of the values in the array are the same. So to do this I call array_unique() to remove duplicates from the array. If all of the values of the array are the same this will leave us with an array of one element. So I check for this and if it is true then all of the values are the same.

Upvotes: 1

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