How to recursively combine array in php - php

Question

I want to combine two arrays into a dictionary.
The keys will be the distinct values of the first array, the values will be all values from the second array, at matching index positions of the key.
<?php
$a=[2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10];
$b=[1,1,3,2,1,2,6,8,8];
?>
array_combine($b,$a);
Expected result as
<?php
/*
Value '1' occurs at index 0, 1 and 4 in $b
Those indices map to values 2, 3 and 6 in $a
*/
$result=[1=>[2,3,6],3=>4,2=>[5,7],6=>8,8=>[9,10]];
?>

Answer 1

There are quite a few PHP array functions. I'm not aware of one that solves your specific problem. you might be able to use some combination of built in php array functions but it might take you a while to weed through your choices and put them together in the correct way. I would just write my own function.
Something like this:
function myCustomArrayFormatter($array1, $array2) {
$result = array();
$num_occurrences = array_count_values($array1);
foreach ($array1 AS $key => $var) {
if ($num_occurrences[$var] > 1) {
$result[$var][] = $array2[$key];
} else {
$result[$var] = $array2[$key];
}
}
return $result;
}
hope that helps.

Answer 2

$a=[2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10];
$b=[1,1,3,2,1,2,6,8,8];
$results = array();
for ($x = 0; $x < count($b); $x++) {
$index = $b[$x];
if(array_key_exists ($index, $results)){
$temp = $results[$index];
}else{
$temp = array();
}
$temp[] = $a[$x];
$results[$index] = $temp;
}
print_r($results);

Answer 3

Here's one way to do this:
$res = [];
foreach ($b as $b_index => $b_val) {
if (!empty($res[$b_val])) {
if (is_array($res[$b_val])) {
$res[$b_val][] = $a[$b_index];
} else {
$res[$b_val] = [$res[$b_val], $a[$b_index]];
}
} else {
$res[$b_val] = $a[$b_index];
}
}
var_dump($res);
UPDATE: another way to do this:
$val_to_index = array_combine($a, $b);
$result = [];
foreach ($val_to_index as $value => $index) {
if(empty($result[$index])){
$result[$index] = $value;
} else if(is_array($result[$index])){
$result[$index][] = $value;
} else {
$result[$index] = [$result[$index], $value];
}
}
var_dump($result);