How can PHP developers efficiently avoid duplicate entries in an array when extracting text content from HTML elements using DOMDocument and DOMXpath?

When extracting text content from HTML elements using DOMDocument and DOMXpath in PHP, developers can efficiently avoid duplicate entries in an array by checking if the extracted text already exists in the array before adding it. This can be achieved by using in_array() function to check for duplicates. 

// Create a new DOMDocument
$doc = new DOMDocument();

// Load the HTML content
$doc->loadHTML($html);

// Create a new DOMXPath instance
$xpath = new DOMXpath($doc);

// Query for specific elements
$elements = $xpath->query('//div[@class="content"]');

// Initialize an empty array to store extracted text
$textArray = [];

// Loop through the elements and extract text content
foreach ($elements as $element) {
    $text = $element->textContent;
    
    // Check if text already exists in the array before adding
    if (!in_array($text, $textArray)) {
        $textArray[] = $text;
    }
}

// Output the unique text content
print_r($textArray);

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