Adnan Chohdry

Posts Tagged ‘array_merge’

Merging two arrays is required very commonly but most of times you require indexes to remain same. There is a function called array_merge(array1, array2,…) which can merge any number of arrays but it will cause two problems mainly. 1: Order of entries will be changed and 2: indexes will be refreshed from 0 onwards.

Here the magic of php comes you just need a “+” sign to merge arrays.

Example:

$array1 = array(0 => 'val', 1 => 'another val')
$array2 = array('my_val' => 'my val', 13 => 'val 13')

$array = $array1 + $array1;

/*
$array will become
array( 0 => 'val',1 => 'another val', 'my_val' => 'my val', 13 => 'val 13')
*/