How to get unique value in multidimensional array

Question

I have done a lot of looking around on the overflow, and on google, but none of the results works for my specific case.

I have a placeholder array called $holder, values as follows:

    Array (      [0] => Array (          [id] => 1          [pid] => 121          [uuid] => 1           )     [1] => Array (          [id] => 2          [pid] => 13         [uuid] => 1         )     [2] => Array (          [id] => 5          [pid] => 121          [uuid] => 1         )     )  

I am trying to pull out distinct/unique values from this multidimensional array. The end result I would like is either a variable containing (13,121), or (preferrably) an array as follows: Array( [0] => 13 [1] => 121 )

Again I've tried serializing and such, but don't quite understand how that works when operating with a single key in each array.

I tried to be as clear as possible. I hope it makes sense...

Answer 1

Seems pretty simple: extract all pid values into their own array, run it through array_unique:

$uniquePids = array_unique(array_map(function ($i) { return $i['pid']; }, $holder)); 

The same thing in longhand:

$pids = array(); foreach ($holder as $h) {     $pids[] = $h['pid']; } $uniquePids = array_unique($pids);