note 25640 deleted from function.in-array by felipe

Note Submitter: bbisgod AT hotmail DOT com 

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I had a HUGE problem of comparing references to see if they were pointing to the same object.

I ended up using this code!

function in_o_array (&$needle, &$haystack) {
  if (!is_array($haystack)) return false;
  foreach ($haystack as $key => $val) {
    if (check_refs($needle, $haystack[$key])) return true;
  }
  return false;
}

function check_refs(&$a, &$b) {
  $tmp = uniqid("");
  $a->$tmp = true;
  $bResult = !empty($b->$tmp);
  unset($a->$tmp);
  return $bResult;
}

Hope this helps someone have a more productive morning that me! :P