The following function could help you to check if there is any duplicated values in an given array.
function has_dupes($array) {
$dupe_array = array();
foreach($array as $val){
if(++$dupe_array[$val] > 1){
return true;
}
}
return false;
}
Done =)
Reference: StackOverflow – php: check if an array has duplicates
