防止数组中的多个条目

Question

So I have this simple code for taking each product, finding the type, and making that a category to show up in my site.

public function get_categories()
{
    $products = $this->get_products();

    $categories = array();

    $i = '-1';

    foreach($products as $product)
    {
        $name = ucfirst(strtolower($this->ci->inflect->pluralize($product['type']))); 

        if(!in_array($name, $categories))
        {
            $i++;

            $categories[$i] = array(
                'name' => $name,
                'type' => strtolower($product['type']),
            );
        }
    }

    return $categories;
}

Now, it was working just fine until I needed to pass the type along with the name so now I'm making a multi-dimensional array.

Now obviously the name is never in array categories because its inside another array in that one.

How can I detect if the name already exists in the arrays inside the array categories?

Answer 1

You can try thiss change [$i] to

$category[$name]

or

   $i++;

if(!in_array($name, $categories[$i]))
        {


            $categories[$i] = array(
                'name' => $name,
                'type' => strtolower($product['type']),
            );
        }