Merge array inside array

Question

I have 2 arrays to merge. The first array is multidimensional, and the second array is a single array:

$a = array(
    array('id'=>'1', 'name'=>'Mike'),
    array('id'=>'2', 'name'=>'Lina'),
);

$b = array('id'=>'3', 'name'=>'Niken');

How to merge 2 arrays to have same array depth?

Cutaneous

What is your desired result? – Hypso

Answer 1

If what you want is this:

array(
    array('id'=>'1', 'name'=>'Mike'),
    array('id'=>'2', 'name'=>'Lina'),
    array('id'=>'3', 'name'=>'Niken')
)

You can just add the second as a new element to the first:

$one[] = $two;

Guzman

Exactly what I thought – Sob

Answer 2

Just append the second array with an empty dimension operator.

$one = array(
    array('id'=>'1', 'name'=>'Mike'),
    array('id'=>'2', 'name'=>'Lina')
);

$two = array('id'=>'3', 'name'=>'Niken');

$one[] = $two;

But if you're wanting to merge unique items, you'll need to do something like this:

if(false === array_search($two, $one)){
    $one[] = $two;
}

Neologism

Answer 3

You can easily do this with the array push with the current array, i modified your code so it would work

<?php
  $myArray = array(
    array('id' => '1',  'name' => 'Mike'),
    array('id' => '2',  'name '=> 'Lina')
  );
  array_push($myArray, array('id'=>'3', 'name'=>'Niken'));
  // Now $myArray has all three of the arrays
  var_dump($myArray);
?>

Let me know if this helps

Incubator

Answer 4

For inserting anything into array you can just use push over index ($array[] = $anything;) or array_push() function. Your case can use both approaches.

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