How to extract unique values from this multidimensional array?

Question

How to extract unique values from this array. I've tried another suggestion...

$input = array_map("unserialize", array_unique(array_map("serialize", $input)));

However because of the unix timestamp it wont work.

Im looking to extract only the second array index unique value and its array so should be left with..

// expected final 
array(
2 => array(...),
3 => array(..)
)



$arr = array (
 0 => 
    array (
     2 => 
       array (
        'date' => 1438173658,
        'user' => 'admin',
     ),
    ),
 1 => 
   array (
      2 => 
       array (
        'date' => 1438007944,
        'user' => 'admin',
    ),
   ),
 2 => 
    array (
        3 => 
          array (
       'date' => 1437746969,
       'user' => 'supes',
      ),
 )
)

Thanks.

the expected outcome is the '//final' I've displayed in the question — succeed, Aug 03 '15 at 14:56
Yeah the user, the index of the subarrays are also the user's id. Indexs are currently 2,2,3 so i should be left with the unique indexes 2,3 and their arrays — succeed, Aug 03 '15 at 15:05

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 03 '15 at 15:06

Might be a simpler way, but here is one:

$result = array_intersect_key($arr,
                              array_unique(array_map(function($v) {
                                                         return current($v)['user'];
                                                     },
                                                     $arr)));

How to extract unique values from this multidimensional array?

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