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array_intersect

Name

array_intersect — Returns an array containing elements that are present in all array arguments.

Synopsis

array array_intersect(array_1, array_2[, . . .]); array array_1: First array to intersect array array_2: Second array to intersect array . . . (optional): Further arrays to intersect

Returns

Array on success; NULL on failure

Description

This function accepts at least two arrays as arguments, and returns an array containing all elements that appear in all given array arguments. The keys of the resultant array are those of the matching elements from the first array argument.

Version

PHP 4 since 4.0.1

Example

Example 20. Calculate the intersection of three arrays

$array_1 = array('brown bat', 'fruit bat', 'wombat', 'baseball bat');
$array_2 = array('goatsucker', 'wombat', 'mongoose', 'mon ami');
$array_3 = array('wombat', 'goatsucker', 'mongoose', 'baseball bat');

$intersection = array_intersect($array_1, $array_2, $array_3);
print_r($intersection);

/* Expected output:
 *
 * Array
 * (
 *    [2] => wombat
 * )
 *
 * Note that the key is '2', which is the matching key from the first array.
 */

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