deduplicator

gistfile1.php

<?php
class Deduplicator
{
    protected $items = [];
    
    public function add($item)
    {
        // name field will be in $item->name
        $this->items[] = $item;
    }

    /**
     * @return array an array of objects
     */
    public function getDeduplicatedItems()
    {
        // magic
        // assume we might want to add functionality to this beyond just name-based deduplication in the future at some point
    }
}