deleteFromArray

<?php
error_reporting(E_ALL); // full error reporting

/* -----------------------
* @function       deleteFromArray
* @param          array       (array)     array that will be searched for value
* @param          remove      (array)     array with values that will be deleted
* @return         newarray    (array)     array without the remove values
* @notes          deletefromarray will search the specific array for values given by 
                  remove param and delete those keys
* @author         Bart Johan Dongelmans (quicktimer@home.nl)
* @date           May 26th 2009
----------------------- */

function deleteFromArray(&$array, &$remove) // initializing function
{
      $array  =     array_flip($array); // flip the array, so keys will be values and values will be keys
      
      for($i = 0; $i < count($remove); $i++) // loop trough items that will be deleted
      {
                  unset($array[$remove[$i]]); // delete every key that is in remove param
      }
      
      $array   =     array_flip($array); // flip back the array so you'll get the old array as output
      
      RETURN $array;
}

$aFruit      =     array("citroen", "appel", "sinaasappel", "peer");

$aRemove  =     array("appel", "citroen");

$aExample  = deleteFromArray($aFruit, $aRemove);

print_r($aExample); // returns "sinaasappel" and "peer"
?>

<?php
error_reporting(E_ALL); // full error reporting
 
/* -----------------------
* @function       deleteFromArray
* @param          array       (array)     array that will be searched for value
* @param          remove      (array)     array with values that will be deleted
* @return         newarray    (array)     array without the remove values
* @notes          deletefromarray will search the specific array for values given by 
                  remove param and delete those keys
* @author         Bart Johan Dongelmans (quicktimer@home.nl)
* @date           May 26th 2009
----------------------- */
 
function deleteFromArray(&$array, &$remove) // initializing function
{
      $array  =     array_flip($array); // flip the array, so keys will be values and values will be keys
 
      for($i = 0; $i < count($remove); $i++) // loop trough items that will be deleted
      {
                  unset($array[$remove[$i]]); // delete every key that is in remove param
      }
 
      $array   =     array_flip($array); // flip back the array so you'll get the old array as output
 
      RETURN $array;
}
 
$aFruit      =     array("citroen", "appel", "sinaasappel", "peer");
 
$aRemove  =     array("appel", "citroen");
 
$aExample  = deleteFromArray($aFruit, $aRemove);
 
print_r($aExample); // returns "sinaasappel" and "peer"
?>