How to remove duplicate values from an array in PHP

Question

Use array_unique().

Example:

$array = array(1, 2, 2, 3);
$array = array_unique($array); // Array is now (1, 2, 3)

Use array_values(array_unique($array));

array_unique: for unique array array_values: for reindexing

//Find duplicates 

$arr = array( 
    'unique', 
    'duplicate', 
    'distinct', 
    'justone', 
    'three3', 
    'duplicate', 
    'three3', 
    'three3', 
    'onlyone' 
);

$unique = array_unique($arr); 
$dupes = array_diff_key( $arr, $unique ); 
    // array( 5=>'duplicate', 6=>'three3' 7=>'three3' )

// count duplicates

array_count_values($dupes); // array( 'duplicate'=>1, 'three3'=>2 )

$result = array();
foreach ($array as $key => $value){
  if(!in_array($value, $result))
    $result[$key]=$value;
}

The only thing which worked for me is:

$array = array_unique($array, SORT_REGULAR);

Edit : SORT_REGULAR keeps the same order of the original array.

sometimes array_unique() is not the way, if you want get unique AND duplicated items...

$unique=array("","A1","","A2","","A1","");
$duplicated=array();

foreach($unique as $k=>$v) {

if( ($kt=array_search($v,$unique))!==false and $k!=$kt )
 { unset($unique[$kt]);  $duplicated[]=$v; }

}

sort($unique); // optional
sort($duplicated); // optional

results on

array ( 0 => '', 1 => 'A1', 2 => 'A2', ) /* $unique */

array ( 0 => '', 1 => '', 2 => '', 3 => 'A1', ) /* $duplicated */

We can create such type of array to use this last value will be updated into column or key value and we will get unique value from the array...

$array = array (1,3,4,2,1,7,4,9,7,5,9);
    $data=array();
    foreach($array as $value ){

        $data[$value]= $value;

    }

    array_keys($data);
    OR
    array_values($data);