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How can I combine both of these arrays and if there is duplicates of an array have only one represented using PHP.

Array
(
    0 => 18
    1 => 20
    2 => 28
    3 => 29
)

Array
(
    0 => 1
    1 => 8
    2 => 19
    3 => 22
    4 => 25
    5 => 28
    6 => 30
)

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It sounds like you need:

 array_unique(array_merge($first_array, $second_array));

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Apply array_unique to the results of the array_merge function.

Example:

php > $f=array(1,2,3,4,5);
php > $r=array(4,5,6,7,8);
php > print_r(array_unique(array_merge($r,$f)));
Array
(
    0 => 4
    1 => 5
    2 => 6
    3 => 7
    4 => 8
    5 => 1
    6 => 2
    7 => 3
)

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Just use the sum operator to merge the values of the two arrays, for instance:

$first = array(18, 20, 21, 28, 29);
$second = array(1, 8, 18, 19, 21, 22, 25, 28, 30); // Contains some elements of $first
$sum = $first + $second;

the resulting array shall contain the elements of both arrays, then you can filter out duplicates using array_unique $result = array_unique($sum);. At this point the resulting array will contain the elements of both arrays but just once:

Array
(
    0 => 18
    1 => 20
    2 => 21
    3 => 28
    4 => 29
    5 => 22
    6 => 25
    7 => 28
    8 => 30
)

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