I have two arrays in PHP.I am facing difficulty in merging this two arrays
$scheduleArray0=Array ([04/04/2016] =>
Array ( [TypeName_1] => Weekly
[TypeID_1] => 3)
[04/05/2016] =>
Array ( [TypeName_1] => Weekly
[TypeID_1] => 3 )
)
$scheduleArray1 = Array ( [04/04/2016] =>
Array ( [TypeName_2] => Biweekly
[TypeID_2] => 7 )
[04/05/2016] =>
Array ( [TypeName_2] => Biweekly
[TypeID_2] => 7 ) ) .
I need it to merge like this.ie My required output
$final = Array ( [04/04/2016] =>
Array ( [TypeName_1] => Weekly [TypeID_1] => 3
[TypeName_2] => Biweekly [TypeID_2] => 7 )
[04/05/2016] =>
Array ( [TypeName_1] => Weekly [TypeID_1] => 3
[TypeName_2] => Biweekly [TypeID_2] => 7 ) )
For merging I have used the following code
$final = merge_common_keys($scheduleArray0,$scheduleArray1);
Its giving me the following multidimensional array.This is what I get
Array ([04/04/2016] =>
Array ( [0] => Array ( [TypeName_1] => Weekly [TypeID_1] => 3 )
[1] => Array ( [TypeName_2] => Biweekly [TypeID_2] => 7 ))
[04/05/2016] =>
Array ( [0] => Array ( [TypeName_1] => Weekly [TypeID_1] => 3 )
[1] => Array ( [TypeName_2] => Biweekly [TypeID_2] => 7 ) )
The user defined function-merge_common_keys
function merge_common_keys(){
$arr = func_get_args();
$num = func_num_args();
$keys = array();
$i = 0;
for ($i=0; $i<$num; ++$i){
$keys = array_merge($keys, array_keys($arr[$i]));
}
$keys = array_unique($keys);
$merged = array();
foreach ($keys as $key){
$merged[$key] = array();
for($i=0; $i<$num; ++$i){
$merged[$key][] = isset($arr[$i][$key]) ? $arr[$i][$key] : null;
}
}
return $merged;
}
EDIT -When I merged two arrays with array_merge()
,I am not getting the $schedule_array0
values in the merged array
This should do the trick:
function merge_common_keys() {
$arrays = func_get_args();
$result = [];
foreach ($arrays as $array) {
foreach ($array as $key => $value) {
if ( ! array_key_exists($key, $result)) {
$result[$key] = [];
}
$result[$key] = array_merge($result[$key], $value);
}
}
return $result;
}
The result is: