how to intersect 2 multidimensional array into third multimensional array - php

Question

i have 2 arryas and i want them to intersect and store the finding matches into third array with values from first array and second array.
the first array looks like this:
Array
(
[0] => Array
(
[0] => 45
[1] => 10640
[2] => 1041-0567041700116
)
[1] => Array
(
[0] => 46
[1] => 10640
[2] => 1041-0567041700318
)
[2] => Array
(
[0] => 207
[1] => 10645
[2] => 03320103000052
)
and the second array:
Array
(
[0] => Array
(
[0] => 03320103000052
[1] => 0
)
[1] => Array
(
[0] => 10013800805001
[1] => 12
)
[2] => Array
(
[0] => 1090-0360141758201
[1] => 3
)
the out put should be:
Array
(
[0] => Array
(
[0] => 207 =>value from first array
[1] => 10645 =>value from first array
[2] => 03320103000052 =>value from first and second array (this is what i need to compare)
[3] => 0 =>value from second array
)
this is similar to this post
but i have problems to store data into multidimensional array
thanks in forward for any suggestions and help

Answer 1

You can do this with only two foreach loops and one if statement:
$combined = array();
foreach ($array1 as $a) {
foreach ($array2 as $b) {
if ($a[2] == $b[0]) {
$combined[] = array($a[0], $a[1], $a[2], $b[1]);
}
}
}
The following is the test I set up to try this:
<?php
$array1 = array();
$array1[] = array('45', '10640', '1041-0567041700116');
$array1[] = array('46', '10640', '1041-0567041700318');
$array1[] = array('207', '10645', '03320103000052');
$array2 = array();
$array2[] = array('03320103000052', '0');
$array2[] = array('10013800805001', '12');
$array2[] = array('1090-0360141758201', '3');
$combined = array();
foreach ($array1 as $a) {
foreach ($array2 as $b) {
if ($a[2] == $b[0]) {
$combined[] = array($a[0], $a[1], $a[2], $b[1]);
}
}
}
print_r($combined);
?>