How can I merge this three arrays
$name ={"Tom", "John", "David"};
$v1 = {"Tom":100, "David":200};
$v2 = {"John":500, "Tom":400};
into one multidimensional associative array in two different ways?
One way is the key order should be same as that of array "name".
$name_merged_original_order = array (
"Tom" => Array(
"v1" => 100,
"v2" => 400
),
"John" => Array(
"v1" => "N/A",
"v2" => 500
),
"David" => Array(
"v1" => 100,
"v2" => "N/A"
)
)
Another ways is the alphabetical of array "name":
$name_merged_asc = array (
"David" => Array(
"v1" => 100,
"v2" => "N/A"
),
"John" => Array(
"v1" => "N/A",
"v2" => 200
),
"Tom" => Array(
"v1" => 100,
"v2" => 400
),
)
The tricky part is that array "v1" and "v2" is not ordered as the key of "name." They also don't have all keys as in "name." Thanks!
It's not tested and the easiest solution:
$name_merged_original_order = array();
foreach($name as $key){
$name_merged_original_order[$key] = array();
if(array_key_exists($key, $v1)){
$name_merged_original_order[$key]['v1'] = $v1[$key];
}
else{
$name_merged_original_order[$key]['v1'] = 'N/A';
}
if(array_key_exists($key, $v2)){
$name_merged_original_order[$key]['v2'] = $v2[$key];
}
else{
$name_merged_original_order[$key]['v2'] = 'N/A';
}
}
sort($name);
$name_merged_asc = array();
foreach($name as $key){
$name_merged_asc[$key] = array();
if(array_key_exists($key, $v1)){
$name_merged_asc[$key]['v1'] = $v1[$key];
}
else{
$name_merged_asc[$key]['v1'] = 'N/A';
}
if(array_key_exists($key, $v2)){
$name_merged_asc[$key]['v2'] = $v2[$key];
}
else{
$name_merged_asc[$key]['v2'] = 'N/A';
}
}
As I understand you would like something like that:
$name = array("Tom", "John", "David");
$result = array();
$v1 = array("Tom" => "200", "John" => "100", "David" => "10");
$v2 = array("Tom" => "254", "David" => "156");
$vars = array("v1", "v2");
foreach($name as $n)
{
$result[$n] = array();
foreach($vars as $v)
{
if(array_key_exists($n, ${$v}))
$result[$n][$v] = ${$v}[$n];
}
}
I hope $result
is what you need.
For Example, you have these arrays:
<?php
$FirstArrays = array('a', 'b', 'c', 'd');
$SecArrays = array('1', '2', '3', '4');
1)
foreach($FirstArrays as $index => $value) {
echo $FirstArrays[$index].$SecArrays[$index];
echo "<br/>";
}
or 2)
for ($index = 0 ; $index < count($FirstArrays); $index ++) {
echo $FirstArrays[$index] . $SecArrays[$index];
echo "<br/>";
}
Assume from your comments you only want items that match in all 3 arrays:
for( $i=0; $i< count($name) ; $i++){
if( !empty( $v1[ $name[$i]]) && !empty( $v2[ $name[$i]]) ){
$newArray[$name[$i]]= array( 'v1'=> $v1[ $name[$i]], 'v2'=> $v2[ $name[$i]]):
}
}
To sort:
asort($newArray);