Merge array without loss key index

Question

i have two array

/**
 * Menu Navigation
 * @var array
 */
public $nav_top = array(
    100 => 'Dashboard',
    200 => 'Sell',
    300 => 'Products',
    400 => 'History',
    500 => 'Customers',
    600 => 'Setup'
);

/**
 * Menu Navigation
 * @var array
 */
public $nav_sub = array(
    201 => 'Current Sale',
    202 => 'Retrieve Sale',
    203 => 'Close Register',

    301 => 'Product',
    302 => 'Stock Control',
    303 => 'Price Books',
    304 => 'Types',
    305 => 'Suppliers',
    306 => 'Brands',
    307 => 'Tags',

    501 => 'Customer',
    502 => 'Group'
);

How to combine this two array without losing it's key index?

if i do it with array_merge() the index will restart from zero

$nav = array_merge($Class->nav_top, $Class->nav_sub);
var_dump($nav);

# Output:
array(
    0 => 'Current Sale',
    1 => 'Retrieve Sale',
    2 => 'Close Register',
    .......
);

expected result the array key still same

# Expected Output
array(
    100 => 'Dashboard',
    200 => 'Sell',
    300 => 'Products',
    ........
);

tripleee · Accepted Answer · 2024-05-13 09:00:23Z

66

The easiest I can think of:

$combined = $nav_top + $nav_sub;

An example.

edited May 13, 2024 at 9:00

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answered Apr 24, 2012 at 21:02

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5 Comments

Baba Over a year ago

+1 i never knew + can work on array .. are you sure its not a bug ... lol

jeroen Over a year ago

@Baba no bug. Really :-) php.net/manual/en/language.operators.array.php

salathe Over a year ago

@Baba, not a bug at all and has been documented for around a decade.

Jules Colle Over a year ago

Note that the order is important. with array_merge($a,$b), keys in $b will override matching keys in $a. Where with $a+$b, keys in $b will NOT override matching keys in $a, but they will be ignored. It's explained in this example: php.net/manual/en/function.array-merge.php#example-5418

tripleee Over a year ago

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Dharman · Accepted Answer · 2024-05-13 12:19:29Z

MY advice

Use the solution from jeroen's answer

Hard way out

$combined  = merge($nav_top,$nav_sub);

Function

function merge($arr1,$arr2)
{
    if(!is_array($arr1))
        $arr1 = array();
    if(!is_array($arr2))
        $arr2 = array();
    $keys1 = array_keys($arr1);
    $keys2 = array_keys($arr2);
    $keys  = array_merge($keys1,$keys2);
    $vals1 = array_values($arr1);
    $vals2 = array_values($arr2);
    $vals  = array_merge($vals1,$vals2);
    $ret    = array();

    foreach($keys as $key)
    {
        list($unused,$val) = each($vals);
        $ret[$key] = $val;
    }

    return $ret;
}

Or

function merge($a1, $a2) {
                           
    $aRes = $a1;
    foreach ( array_slice ( func_get_args (), 1 ) as $aRay ) {
        foreach ( array_intersect_key ( $aRay, $aRes ) as $key => $val )
            $aRes [$key] += $val;
        $aRes += $aRay;
    }
    return $aRes;
}

Demo : http://codepad.org/9B8V96Gf

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