Creating array from translated datas and merging an array in PHP - php

Question

I'm designing a site with multi-language support. Our main language is Turkish. I do not want while admin is inserting Turkish data, empty other fields in foreign languages. So when the Turkish data insert in ends with "_tr" columns, in the foreign language fields ends with "_en" and "_de", I want to get from Yandex Translator data which is automatically translated.
Here is my table structure:
My data structure like this which will be inserted:
$data = array(... 'parent_id' => 234, 'date' => "2014-08-31 23:07:47", 'status' => 1);
I want to to add in "..." like this:
$translated = array('fruit_tr' => "Elma", 'fruit_en' => "Apple", 'fruit_de' => "Apfel", 'color_tr' => "Kırmızı", 'color_en' => "Red", 'color_de' => "Rot");
I tried this:
$from_turkish = array('fruit' => "Elma", 'color' => "Kırmızı");
public function Translate ($from_turkish) {
$langs = array("tr", "en", "de");
$translated = array();
foreach ($langs as $lang){
foreach ($from_turkish as $field_name => $value) {
$translated[] = array($field_name.'_'.$lang => YandexTrApi($value, 'tr', $lang));
}
}
return $translated;
}
YandexTrApi function returns translated data. Finally, I used array_merge function like this:
$data_array = array_merge($translated, $data);
But it did not take form like this:
$data_array = array('fruit_tr' => "Elma", 'fruit_en' => "Apple", 'fruit_de' => "Apfel", 'color_tr' => "Kırmızı", 'color_en' => "Red", 'color_de' => "Rot", 'parent_id' => 234, 'date' => "2014-08-31 23:07:47", 'status' => 1);

Answer 1

array_merge($translated, $data) is fine and $translated + $data would give the same result in this case, but...
$translated[] = array($field_name.'_'.$lang => YandexTrApi($value, 'tr', $lang));
...this way you'll push new arrays inside $translated array. You need to add new keys only - try this instead:
$translated[$field_name.'_'.$lang] = YandexTrApi($value, 'tr', $lang);
Also the foreach() loops nested like this will give you slightly different order, but I guess you don't need it to match db (as your ... part may be placed before parent_id key).