Basically I need to take two arrays, merge them with unique values and sum one of columns. It makes more sense when written out below:
$a = [
['ID' => 1, 'Count' => 2],
];
$b = [
['ID' => 1, 'Count' => 4],
['ID' => 2, 'Count' => 3]
];
and I need the final product to be:
$a_plus_b = [
['ID' => 1, 'Count' => 6],
['ID' => 2, 'Count' => 3]
];
I have been playing with different variations of array_merge()
and array_unique()
, but I can't find an efficient way to do what I need. I know I can always do nested loops, but I was hoping for something easier. Any ideas?
This should do the trick
Note: This solution requires PHP >= 5.3
. There is a PHP < 5.3 solution below.
$input = array($a, $b);
// add as many result arrays to $input as you want; e.g.,
// $input = array($a, $b, $c, $d);
$output = array_count_values(
call_user_func_array(
'array_merge',
array_map(
function($arr) {
return array_fill(0, $arr['Count'], $arr['ID']);
},
call_user_func_array(
'array_merge',
$input
)
)
)
);
print_r($output);
Output
Array
(
[1] => 6
[2] => 3
)
Note the array keys above are ID
values. The array values are Count
values.
If you're running PHP < 5.2
you won't be able to use the inline closure with array_fill
. You have to define it as a separate function.
$input = array($a, $b);
function _fill($arr) {
return array_fill(0, $arr['Count'], $arr['ID']);
}
$output = array_count_values(
call_user_func_array(
'array_merge',
array_map(
'_fill',
call_user_func_array(
'array_merge',
$input
)
)
)
);
print_r($output);
From here, converting the output to your desired format is a trivial task.