simplediff.php

<?php

/*
	Paul's Simple Diff Algorithm v 0.1
	(C) Paul Butler 2007 <http://www.paulbutler.org/>
	May be used and distributed under the zlib/libpng license.
	
	This code is intended for learning purposes; it was written with short
	code taking priority over performance. It could be used in a practical
	application, but there are a few ways it could be optimized.
	
	Given two arrays, the function diff will return an array of the changes.
	I won't describe the format of the array, but it will be obvious
	if you use print_r() on the result of a diff on some test data.
	
	htmlDiff is a wrapper for the diff command, it takes two strings and
	returns the differences in HTML. The tags used are <ins> and <del>,
	which can easily be styled with CSS.  
*/

function diff($old, $new){
	$maxlen = 0;
	foreach($old as $oindex => $ovalue){
		$nkeys = array_keys($new, $ovalue);
		foreach($nkeys as $nindex){
			$matrix[$oindex][$nindex] = isset($matrix[$oindex - 1][$nindex - 1]) ?
				$matrix[$oindex - 1][$nindex - 1] + 1 : 1;
			if($matrix[$oindex][$nindex] > $maxlen){
				$maxlen = $matrix[$oindex][$nindex];
				$omax = $oindex + 1 - $maxlen;
				$nmax = $nindex + 1 - $maxlen;
			}
		}	
	}
	if($maxlen == 0) return array(array('d'=>$old, 'i'=>$new));
	return array_merge(
		diff(array_slice($old, 0, $omax), array_slice($new, 0, $nmax)),
		array_slice($new, $nmax, $maxlen),
		diff(array_slice($old, $omax + $maxlen), array_slice($new, $nmax + $maxlen)));
}

function htmlDiff($old, $new){
	$ret = '';
	$diff = diff(explode(' ', $old), explode(' ', $new));
	foreach($diff as $k){
		if(is_array($k))
			$ret .= (!empty($k['d'])?"<del>".implode(' ',$k['d'])."</del> ":'').
				(!empty($k['i'])?"<ins>".implode(' ',$k['i'])."</ins> ":'');
		else $ret .= $k . ' ';
	}
	return $ret;
}

?>