Getting duplicated values when using array_diff()

Question

I have the following script:

// Query
$STH = $DB->prepare('SELECT * FROM players WHERE game = ?');
$STH->execute(array($_POST['game']));

// Get the stored photos
$Used = array();
while ($row = $STH->fetch())
  $Used[] = intval($row['photo']);

// (1)

// Get a random photo that is not stored already
$Photo = array_rand(array_diff(range(1, 6), $Used));

// (2)

// Insert the photo
$STH = $DB->prepare('INSERT INTO players (id, user, game, name, family, photo) VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?)');
$STH->execute(array($Id, $User->id, intval($_POST['game']), $Name, $Family, $Photo));

However, this is giving me duplicated results in the database. Specifically, the 1 and the 5 are getting repeated many times (not the others for the test I performed of about 30 elements to force the 6 elements range.

Furthermore, if I write var_dump(array_diff(range(1, 6), $Used)); in (1) after many inserts, it always outputs array(2) { [1]=> int(2) [5]=> int(6) }. So, apparently, the numbers 2 and 6 are not being considered. And if I do echo $Photo; in (2), the numbers are always 1 or 5, so it's not a problem of the insert apparently.

So, why are the entries in the database getting duplicated? What's wrong with my PHP code? I will definitely put a 2 field unique constraint in the future, but that won't fix the PHP which is saving the random photos' ids.

Answer 1

Silly me, I just solved it by re-reading what I thought I knew: array_rand (of course) returns the KEY of the array. Therefore, it works like:

// Query
$STH = $DB->prepare('SELECT * FROM players WHERE game = ?');
$STH->execute(array($_POST['game']));

// Get the stored photos
$Used = array();
while ($row = $STH->fetch())
  $Used[] = intval($row['photo']);

// Get a random photo that is not stored already
$Array = array_diff(range(1, 6), $Used);
$PhotoKey = array_rand($Array);
$Photo = $Array[$PhotoKey];

// Insert the photo
$STH = $DB->prepare('INSERT INTO players (id, user, game, name, family, photo) VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?)');
$STH->execute(array($Id, $User->id, intval($_POST['game']), $Name, $Family, $Photo));