Merging arrays with the same keys

Question

In a piece of software, I merge two arrays with array_merge function. But I need to add the same array (with the same keys, of course) to an existing array.

The problem:

 $A = array('a' => 1, 'b' => 2, 'c' => 3);
 $B = array('c' => 4, 'd'=> 5);

 array_merge($A, $B);

 // result
 [a] => 1 [b] => 2 [c] => 4 [d] => 5

As you see, 'c' => 3 is missed.

So how can I merge all of them with the same keys?

Answer 1

You need to use array_merge_recursive instead of array_merge. Of course there can only be one key equal to 'c' in the array, but the associated value will be an array containing both 3 and 4.

See it in action.

Answer 2

Try with array_merge_recursive

$A = array('a' => 1, 'b' => 2, 'c' => 3);
$B = array('c' => 4, 'd'=> 5);
$c = array_merge_recursive($A,$B);

echo "<pre>";
print_r($c);
echo "</pre>";

will return

Array
(
    [a] => 1
    [b] => 2
    [c] => Array
        (
            [0] => 3
            [1] => 4
        )

    [d] => 5
)

Answer 3

$arr1 = array(
   "0" => array("fid" => 1, "tid" => 1, "name" => "Melon"),
   "1" => array("fid" => 1, "tid" => 4, "name" => "Tansuozhe"),
   "2" => array("fid" => 1, "tid" => 6, "name" => "Chao"),
   "3" => array("fid" => 1, "tid" => 7, "name" => "Xi"),
   "4" => array("fid" => 2, "tid" => 9, "name" => "Xigua")
);

if you want to convert this array as following:

$arr2 = array(
   "0" => array(
          "0" => array("fid" => 1, "tid" => 1, "name" => "Melon"),
          "1" => array("fid" => 1, "tid" => 4, "name" => "Tansuozhe"),
          "2" => array("fid" => 1, "tid" => 6, "name" => "Chao"),
          "3" => array("fid" => 1, "tid" => 7, "name" => "Xi")
    ),

    "1" => array(
          "0" =>array("fid" => 2, "tid" => 9, "name" => "Xigua")
     )
);

so, my answer will be like this:

$outer_array = array();
$unique_array = array();
foreach($arr1 as $key => $value)
{
    $inner_array = array();

    $fid_value = $value['fid'];
    if(!in_array($value['fid'], $unique_array))
    {
            array_push($unique_array, $fid_value);
            unset($value['fid']);
            array_push($inner_array, $value);
            $outer_array[$fid_value] = $inner_array;


    }else{
            unset($value['fid']);
            array_push($outer_array[$fid_value], $value);

    }
}
var_dump(array_values($outer_array));

hope this answer will help somebody sometime.

Answer 4

 $A = array('a' => 1, 'b' => 2, 'c' => 3);
 $B = array('c' => 4, 'd'=> 5);
 $C = array_merge_recursive($A, $B);
 $aWhere = array();
 foreach ($C as $k=>$v) {

    if (is_array($v)) {
        $aWhere[] = $k . ' in ('.implode(', ',$v).')';
    }
    else {
        $aWhere[] = $k . ' = ' . $v;
    }
 }
 $where = implode(' AND ', $aWhere);
 echo $where;

Answer 5

I just wrote this function, it should do the trick for you, but it does left join

public function mergePerKey($array1,$array2)
    {
        $mergedArray = [];

        foreach ($array1 as $key => $value) 
        {
            if(isset($array2[$key]))
             {
               $mergedArray[$value] = null;

               continue;
             }
            $mergedArray[$value] = $array2[$key];
        }

        return $mergedArray;
    }

Answer 6

Two entries in an array can't share a key, you'll need to change the key for the duplicate

Answer 7

Try this:

$array_one = $_POST['ratio_type'];
$array_two = $_POST['ratio_type'];
$array_three = $_POST['ratio_type'];
$array_four = $_POST['ratio_type'];
$array_five = $_POST['ratio_type'];
$array_six = $_POST['ratio_type'];
$array_seven = $_POST['ratio_type'];
$array_eight = $_POST['ratio_type'];

$all_array_elements = array_merge_recursive(
    $array_one,
    $array_two,
    $array_three,
    $aray_four, 
    $array_five,
    $array_six,
    $array_seven,
    $array_eight
);

print_r($all_array_elements, 1);

foreach ($all_array_elements as $key => $value) {          
    echo $key.'-'.$value;            
}