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Pre- or appending arrays and preserving key => value pairs - El Forum - 04-15-2013
[eluser]GrahamDj28[/eluser]
Hi,
Maybe somebody has already posted something like this, but i could not really find a solution for this.
So I made my own function and would like to share it with all of you!
We all know the array_merge and array_merge_recursive for merging arrays. They both work fine. What i was looking for was a function for prepending or appending values onto an existing array while preserving key => value pairs. When using string keys array_unshift is no problem. But I often have id => title pairs for using in a form select. And then you can't use array_unshift for prepending extra data onto it.
My solution
Code:
/**
* Merge array's while preserving key => value pairs
*
* <p>
* If prepend is true, the source will be added to the append array
* If prepend is false, the append will be added to the source array
* </p>
*
* @param array $append, values that must be added
* @param array $source, the source array
* @param boolean $prepend
*/
function merge_array($append, $source, $prepend = TRUE) {
if($prepend) {
foreach($source as $key => $value) {
$append[$key] = $value;
}
return $append;
} else {
foreach($append as $key => $value) {
$source[$key] = $value;
}
return $source;
}
}As you can see there is no check if a key already exists, as I only use this function to prepend an empty select option
(''=>Please make a choise) for a required form select
Hope this can help somebody