PHP combine two associative arrays into one array

Solution 1:

array_merge() is more efficient but there are a couple of options:

$array1 = array("id1" => "value1");

$array2 = array("id2" => "value2", "id3" => "value3", "id4" => "value4");

$array3 = array_merge($array1, $array2/*, $arrayN, $arrayN*/);
$array4 = $array1 + $array2;

echo '<pre>';
var_dump($array3);
var_dump($array4);
echo '</pre>';


// Results:
    array(4) {
      ["id1"]=>
      string(6) "value1"
      ["id2"]=>
      string(6) "value2"
      ["id3"]=>
      string(6) "value3"
      ["id4"]=>
      string(6) "value4"
    }
    array(4) {
      ["id1"]=>
      string(6) "value1"
      ["id2"]=>
      string(6) "value2"
      ["id3"]=>
      string(6) "value3"
      ["id4"]=>
      string(6) "value4"
    }

Solution 2:

Check out array_merge().

$array3 = array_merge($array1, $array2);

Solution 3:

There is also array_replace, where an original array is modified by other arrays preserving the key => value association without creating duplicate keys.

Same keys on other arrays will cause values to overwrite the original array
New keys on other arrays will be created on the original array

Solution 4:

I use a wrapper around array_merge to deal with SeanWM's comment about null arrays; I also sometimes want to get rid of duplicates. I'm also generally wanting to merge one array into another, as opposed to creating a new array. This ends up as:

/**
 * Merge two arrays - but if one is blank or not an array, return the other.
 * @param $a array First array, into which the second array will be merged
 * @param $b array Second array, with the data to be merged
 * @param $unique boolean If true, remove duplicate values before returning
 */
function arrayMerge(&$a, $b, $unique = false) {
    if (empty($b)) {
        return;  // No changes to be made to $a
    }
    if (empty($a)) {
        $a = $b;
        return;
    }
    $a = array_merge($a, $b);
    if ($unique) {
        $a = array_unique($a);
    }
}

Solution 5:

        $array = array(
            22 => true,
            25 => true,
            34 => true,
            35 => true,
        );

        print_r(
            array_replace($array, [
                22 => true,
                42 => true,
            ])
        );

        print_r(
            array_merge($array, [
                22 => true,
                42 => true,
            ])
        );

If it is numeric but not sequential associative array, you need to use array_replace