How do i merge the arrays in a particular format? - php

Question

I have following arrays:
1) for total placed
Array
(
[0] => Array
(
[centers] => Array
(
[name] => delhi
[id] => 1
)
[0] => Array
(
[totalplaced] => 8
)
)
[1] => Array
(
[centers] => Array
(
[name] => mumbai
[id] => 2
)
[0] => Array
(
[totalplaced] => 1
)
)
)
2) for total working
Array
(
[0] => Array
(
[centers] => Array
(
[name] => delhi
[id] => 1
)
[0] => Array
(
[totalworking] => 4
)
)
[1] => Array
(
[centers] => Array
(
[name] => mumbai
[id] => 2
)
[0] => Array
(
[totalworking] => 1
)
)
)
3) for total trained
Array
(
[0] => Array
(
[centers] => Array
(
[name] => delhi
[id] => 1
)
[0] => Array
(
[totaltrained] => 8
)
)
[1] => Array
(
[centers] => Array
(
[name] => mumbai
[id] => 2
)
[0] => Array
(
[totaltrained] => 1
)
)
)
I wanted to merge these arrays so that the resultant array should look like this
[newarray] => Array(
[0] => Array (
[centers] => Array
(
[name] => delhi
[id] => 1
[totalplaced] => 8
[totalworking] => 4
[totaltrained] => 8
)
)
[1]=> Array(
[centers] => Array
(
[name] => mumbai
[id] => 2
[totalplaced] => 1
[totalworking] => 1
[totaltrained] => 1
)
)
)
This is the tabular representation of the above data which i want to display
centername totalplaced totalworking totaltrained
delhi 8 4 8
mumbai 1 1 1
Please help me on this.
Thanks
Pankaj Khurana

Answer 1

The difficulty here is that PHP's functions such as array_merge() and array_merge_recursive() will not merge data into numeric keys, but rather will re-key any duplicate numeric key. So for example given two arrays:
array(
'test' => 'abc',
0 => 'xyz'
);
array(
'test' => 'def',
0 => 'uvw'
);
Merging them together with array_merge() will produce an array like:
array(
'test' => 'def',
0 => 'xyz',
1 => 'uvw'
);
So, you need a custom function to be "additive" on any key, regardless of whether it is a string or numeric key. Try this:
function mixed_key_array_merge() {
$args = func_get_args();
$result = array();
foreach ($args as $arg) {
// discard non-array arguments; maybe this could be better handled
if (!is_array($arg)) {
continue;
}
foreach ($arg as $key => $value) {
if (!isset($result[$key])) {
$result[$key] = $value;
} else if (is_array($result[$key])) {
$result[$key] = call_user_func_array('mixed_key_array_merge',array($result[$key],$value));
}
}
}
return $result;
}