For a cars company (Just an example) I need to automate the stock inventory:
$purchase_array = array("Lamborghini" => "5", "Ferrari" => "4", "Bugatti" => "3", "McLaren" => "2", "Fiat" => "10", "Mazda" => "20");
$sales_array = array("Lamborghini" => "1", "Ferrari" => "2", "Bugatti" => "3");
I want to have as results this array:
$stock_array = array("Lamborghini" => "4", "Ferrari" => "2", "Bugatti" => "0", "McLaren" => "2", "Fiat" => "10", "Mazda" => "20");
First I looked for the common cars:
$common_cars = array_keys(array_intersect_key($purchase_array, $sales_array));
foreach ($common_cars as $common_car) {
.....
}
buy I couldn't finish it.
Any help will be appreciated. Thanks in advance
You could do something similar to this. If you wanted to preserve the purchase_array you could copy the array to another var.
N.B. If you could retrieve/store the quantity as intergers you can be sure when you loop over the items you wont get an unexpected result
$aPurchaseArray = array("Lamborghini" => 5, "Ferrari" => 4, "Bugatti" => 3, "McLaren" => 2, "Fiat" => 1", "Mazda" => 2");
$aSalesArray = array("Lamborghini" => 1, "Ferrari" => 2, "Bugatti" => 3);
// foreach sales item, using the key as the name and value as quantity sold
foreach($aSalesArray as $sProductName => $iQuantitySold){
// if the product name exists in the target reduce its quantity
if(isset($aPurchaseArray[$sProductName])){
$aPurchaseArray[$sProductName] - $iQuantitySold;
}
}