“Array to string conversion error” when calling array_diff_assoc() with a multidimensional array

According to it:

php -r 'array_diff(array("a" => array("b" => 4)), array(1));'
PHP Notice:  Array to string conversion in Command line code on line 1
PHP Stack trace:
PHP   1. {main}() Command line code:0
PHP   2. array_diff() Command line code:1

One of your arrays is multidimensional.

array_diff only checks one dimension of a n-dimensional array. Of course you can check deeper dimensions by using array_diff($array1[0], $array2[0]);