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How to combine associative arrays with different keys?


I am trying to merge 5 associative arrays which having different keys. This is the result after using array merge on 5 arrays

array_merge($bucketExlData1, $bucketExlData2, $bucketExlData3, $bucketExlData4, $bucketExlData5)

result

array:5 [▼
  0 => array:1 [▼
    "Name" => "John Test"
  ]
  1 => array:1 [▼
    "Archived-On" => "2016-05-02 18:20:26"
  ]
  2 => array:8 [▼
    "Phone" => "2132918968"
    "DOB" => "1800-01-01 00:00:00"
    "Referred-By-Practice" => "-"
    "Referred-By-Provider" => "-"
    "Last-Scheduled-To-Practice" => "-"
    "Last-Scheduled-To-Provider" => "-"
    "Last-Scheduled-To-Location" => "-"
    "Last-Scheduled-Date-of-Service" => "-"
  ]
  3 => array:1 [▼
    "Archived-Reason" => "no-need-to-schedule"
  ]
  4 => array:1 [▼
    "Notes" => "done"
  ]
]

I want to make this array like

array:5 [▼   
    "Name" => "John Test"
    "Archived-On" => "2016-05-02 18:20:26"
    "Phone" => "2132918968"
    "DOB" => "1800-01-01 00:00:00"
    "Referred-By-Practice" => "-"
    "Referred-By-Provider" => "-"
    "Last-Scheduled-To-Practice" => "-"
    "Last-Scheduled-To-Provider" => "-"
    "Last-Scheduled-To-Location" => "-"
    "Last-Scheduled-Date-of-Service" => "-"
    "Archived-Reason" => "no-need-to-schedule"
    "Notes" => "done"
]

Solution

  • I'll assume your array is like this

    $arrayName = array(
        '0' => array("Name" => "John Test"),
        '1' => array("Archived-On" => "2016-05-02 18:20:26"),
        '2' => array(
               "Phone" => "2132918968",
            "DOB" => "1800-01-01 00:00:00",
            "Referred-By-Practice" => "-",
            "Referred-By-Provider" => "-",
            "Last-Scheduled-To-Practice" => "-",
            "Last-Scheduled-To-Provider" => "-",
            "Last-Scheduled-To-Location" => "-",
            "Last-Scheduled-Date-of-Service" => "-"
            )
        );
    

    Then try array_reduce

    $result = array_reduce($arrayName, 'array_merge', array());
    

    Output

    Array ( 
        [Name] => John Test 
        [Archived-On] => 2016-05-02 18:20:26
        [Phone] => 2132918968 
        [DOB] => 1800-01-01 00:00:00 
        [Referred-By-Practice] => - 
        [Referred-By-Provider] => - 
        [Last-Scheduled-To-Practice] => - 
        [Last-Scheduled-To-Provider] => - 
        [Last-Scheduled-To-Location] => - 
        [Last-Scheduled-Date-of-Service] => - 
    )