WP Query - duplicated posts once including tags in search results

Question

I running WordPress on IIS & SQL server. As some of the plugins do not work correctly with DB ABSTRACTION I am using a lot of functions.php filters as so on.

To make my search results include tags I have added the following code to my functions.php - http://pastebin.com/BZG20McY

My search results now include tags, but I get plenty of duplicated posts.

Is there any way to filter WP QUERY and remove all duplicated post before going into the WHILE LOOP?

Here is my basic loop:

<?php

$query_args = explode("&", $query_string);
$search_query = array('');

foreach($query_args as $key => $string) {
     $query_split = explode("=", $string);
     $search_query[$query_split[0]] = urldecode($query_split[1]);
} 
$search = new WP_Query($search_query);

?>


<?php if ($search->have_posts()) : ?>
     <?php while ($search->have_posts()) : $search->the_post(); ?>
          // SOME POSTS
     <?php endwhile; ?>
<?php else : ?>
// NO POSTS
<?php endif; ?>

Any suggestions much appreciated.

Answer 1

Adding this inside the WHILE LOOP will solve the problem. It will skip the post in the loop if this post ID is present in our array (meaning, same post went through the loop before).

<?php 

    // MAKE SURE YOU DECLARE $postsIDsArray= array(); outside of the loop, on top of it
    $postID = $search->post->ID;

    // if this ID is present in the array, skip this post
    if (in_array($postID, $postsIDsArray)) continue;

    // if the ID is not present, add this ID to the array
    array_push($postsIDsArray, $postID);

?>