How to pluck unique dates from structure fields from multiple pages?

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I have multiple event pages, each with a structure field that can hold multiple dates. For a timetable in the frontend I need to have an array of every unique date (no time).

I tried to loop through every page and pluck the dates from the structure to then loop through this array and only add unique dates to a new array like so:

$events = $site->find('performances', 'workshops')->children();
$uniqueDates = [];

foreach($events as $event) {
  $dateStructure = $event->dates()->toStructure();
  $dates = $dateStructure->pluck('date');

  foreach($dates as $date) {
    if(!in_array($date, $uniqueDates)) {
      $uniqueDates[] = $date;
    }
  }
}

But if I var_dump($uniqueDates) it doesn’t filter the reoccurring dates. I am pretty sure it has to do with the fact, that I store a kirby field in that array that is unique even though it has the same content, but I don’t want to just store a string, since I want to work with the date in different formats later on.

What would be the best way to do this?

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You can still use PHP’s date methods to create different date format from a string, so I’d just pluck the strings.

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Yes, that would probably be the easiest! Thank you :slight_smile: