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Get repeating strings in PHP array
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<?php | |
/** | |
* =========================================== | |
* Compare strings and return repeating string | |
* =========================================== | |
* | |
* EXAMPLE: | |
* | |
* $strings = array( | |
* "oh this is repeating string number one", | |
* "and this is repeating string too", | |
* "this is repeating string also", | |
*); | |
* | |
* echo getRepeatingString($strings); // "this is repeating string" | |
* | |
* @author Jan Zatloukal / rotten77.cz | |
* @param array $strings | |
* @return string $compare | |
*/ | |
function getRepeatingString($strings) { | |
foreach($strings as $key=>$string) { | |
$strings[$key] = mb_strtolower($string, "utf-8"); | |
} | |
foreach($strings as $key=>$string) { | |
$compareStartA = -1; | |
$compareStartB = -1; | |
$strA = ($key==0 ? explode(" ", $strings[0]) : $compare); | |
$compare = array(); | |
$strB = explode(" ", $string); | |
foreach($strA as $keyA=>$valA) { | |
foreach($strB as $keyB=>$valB) { | |
if($valA==$valB) { | |
$compareStartA = ($compareStartA>=0 ? $compareStartA : $keyA); | |
$compareStartB = ($compareStartB>=0 ? $compareStartB : $keyB); | |
} | |
} | |
} | |
$idx=0; | |
foreach($strA as $keyA=>$valA) { | |
if($strA>=$compareStartA) { | |
if(isset($strB[$compareStartB+$idx]) && $valA==$strB[$compareStartB+$idx]) { | |
$compare[] = $valA; | |
$idx++; | |
} | |
} | |
} | |
} | |
return implode(" ", $compare); | |
} |
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