How can the issue of duplicate date outputs be addressed when displaying events on a PHP calendar?

When displaying events on a PHP calendar, the issue of duplicate date outputs can be addressed by using an associative array to store the events for each date. By checking if an event already exists for a specific date before adding a new one, we can prevent duplicate entries. 

// Sample code to prevent duplicate date outputs on a PHP calendar

// Array to store events for each date
$events = array();

// Sample events data
$events_data = array(
    array("date" => "2022-01-01", "event" => "New Year's Day"),
    array("date" => "2022-01-01", "event" => "Birthday Party"),
    array("date" => "2022-01-05", "event" => "Meeting"),
);

// Loop through events data
foreach ($events_data as $event) {
    $date = $event['date'];
    
    // Check if event already exists for the date
    if (isset($events[$date])) {
        $events[$date][] = $event['event'];
    } else {
        $events[$date] = array($event['event']);
    }
}

// Display events on the calendar
foreach ($events as $date => $event_list) {
    echo "Date: $date<br>";
    echo "Events: " . implode(", ", $event_list) . "<br><br>";
}

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