let's say I have two arrays like so:
$array1 = array('A' => array(
'B' => array(
'C' => array(
'D' => array(
'data' => array(
0 => array(
'id' => 1,
'name' => 'name 1'),
1 => array(
'id' => 2,
'name' => 'name 2')))))));
$array2 = array('A' => array(
'B' => array(
'C' => array(
'E' => array(
'data' => array(
0 => array(
'id' => 3,
'name' => 'name 3'),
1 => array(
'id' => 4,
'name' => 'name 4')))))));
As you can see, the two arrays have the same key A, B, and C but the keys are different afterwards. How do I merge these two arrays into something like this:
$final_array = array('A' => array(
'B' => array(
'C' => array(
'D' => array(
'data' => array(
0 => array(
'id' => 1,
'name' => 'name 1'),
1 => array(
'id' => 2,
'name' => 'name 2'))),
'E' => array(
'data' => array(
0 => array(
'id' => 3,
'name' => 'name 3'),
1 => array(
'id' => 4,
'name' => 'name 4')))))));
As you can see, in this case I merge the arrays together into the same array that contains different keys for both. In order words, here I'm putting the array starting from key E from the second array into the array with index C.
Any help will be appreciated, thanks
EDIT: Now, how about if my arrays ($array1, $array2, $array3, $array4, etc...) are generated inside a foreach loop, how do I merge all of those arrays together (Notice that I do not know the number of arrays beforehand)
http://php.net/manual/en/function.array-merge-recursive.php
print_r(array_merge_recursive($array1, $array2));
This should do the trick.
Added:
$collection=array();
foreach() {
$collection[]=$myArray; //here you add your array to collection
}
print_r(call_user_func_array('array_merge_recursive', $collection));
i have not tested this but try this code:
foreach( $array1 as $key => $val )
{
if( !in_array( $key, $array2 ) )
{
$array2[$key] = $val;
}
}
EDIT
use Rok Kralj's answer, using native functions are probably the best way to do this as they are much faster.