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Compare two associative arrays

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  1. function compareAssociativeArrays($first_array, $second_array)
  2. {
  3. 	$result = array_diff_assoc($first_array, $second_array);
  4. 	if(!empty($result))
  5. 	{
  6. 	    //Arrays are different
  7. 	    //print_r($result); will return the difference as key => value pairs.
  8. 		return FALSE;
  9. 	}
  10. 	else
  11. 	{
  12. 		//Arrays are same. 
  13. 		//print_r($result); returns empty array.
  14. 		return TRUE;
  15. 	}
  16. }
  17.  
  18. //Usage:
  19. $first = array(
  20. 	'name' => 'Zoran',
  21. 	'smart' => 'not really'
  22. );
  23.  
  24. $second = array(
  25. 	'smart' => 'not really',
  26. 	'name' => 'Zoran'
  27. );
  28.  
  29. if(compareAssociativeArrays($first, $second))
  30. {
  31. 	echo 'Arrays are same';
  32. }
  33. else
  34. {
  35. 	echo 'Arrays are different';
  36. }

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