php array removing successive duplicate occurances in an array [duplicate]

Answer 1

You can just do something like:

if(current($a) !== $new_val)
    $a[] = $new_val;

Assuming you're not manipulating that array in between you can use current() it's more efficient than counting it each time to check the value at count($a)-1

Answer 2

Successive duplicates? I don't know about native functions, but this one works. Well almost. Think I understood it wrong. In my function the 7 => "go" is a duplicate of 6 => "go", and 8 => "stop" is the new value...?

function filterSuccessiveDuplicates($array)
{
    $result = array();

    $lastValue = null;
    foreach ($array as $key => $value) {
        // Only add non-duplicate successive values
        if ($value !== $lastValue) {
            $result[$key] = $value;
        }

        $lastValue = $value;
    }

    return $result;
}