RE: [PHP] merge 3 arrays in PHP3??

Thanks for the help, but that function is giving me parse error. Here's what I've got: ------------------------- function rec(&$ar1,&$ar2){ foreach ($ar2 as $k=>$v){ <<<PARSE ERROR<<< if (isset($ar1[$k] && is_array($ar1[$k]) && is_array($ar2[$k])){ rec($ar1[$k],$ar2[$k]); }elseif (!isset($ar1[$k]){ $ar1[$k]=$v; } } } $ar1 = file ('one.db'); $ar2 = file ('two.db'); rec($ar1,$ar2); $fcontents = $ar1; rsort ($fcontents); ------------------------- I'm pretty new to PHP (and programming in general), but... Do $k and $v need to be defined somewhere (as keys/values??)? I'm guessing this function is meant to append $ar2 to $ar1, such as: BEFORE --one.db-- big,red,apple long,yellow,banana --two.db-- little,green,kiwi small,orange,mandarin AFTER --one.db-- big,red,apple long,yellow,banana little,green,kiwi small,orange,mandarin (That's what I'm shooting for.) Thanks again. ...Rene --- Rene Fournier renefournier@yahoo.com > -----Original Message----- > From: Andrey Hristov [mailto:ahristov@icygen.com] > Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2001 9:09 PM > To: René Fournier > Subject: Re: [PHP] merge 3 arrays in PHP3?? > > > function rec(&$ar1,&$ar2){ > foreach ($ar2 as $k=>$v){ > if (isset($ar1[$k] && is_array($ar1[$k]) && is_array($ar2[$k])){ > rec($ar1[$k],$ar2[$k]); > }elseif (!isset($ar1[$k]){ > $ar1[$k]=$v; > } > } > } > > I'm sure at 10% that will work, bu I think after > little(estimated) hacking it > will go. > > > -- > Andrey Hristov > Web Developer > Icygen Corporation > BUILDING SOLUTIONS > http://www.icygen.com > > > On Wednesday 17 October 2001 03:56 pm, you wrote: > > I'd like to merge three arrays, then sort them, but I have to > do it in PHP3 > > (so I can't use, much to my disappointment array_merge_recursive()). Is > > there another [simple] way to do this?? > > > > This is what I've got now: > > ------------------------------------ > > $array[1] = file ('one.db'); > > $array[2] = file ('two.db'); > > $array[3] = file ('three.db'); > > > > for ($a = "1"; $a < 4; $a++) { > > > > $contents = $array[$a]; > > rsort ($contents); > > ------------------------------------ > > And this is what I'd LIKE to have (or something like it that works :-) > > ------------------------------------ > > $array[1] = file ('one.db'); > > $array[2] = file ('two.db'); > > $array[3] = file ('three.db'); > > > > $contents = array_merge_recursive($array[1], $array[2], $array[3]); > > rsort ($contents); > > ------------------------------------ > > Notice, I want to sort the ENTIRE three arrays as ONE array, not > > subsorts... (Thanks!) > > > > ...Rene > > > > --- > > Rene Fournier > > renefournier@yahoo.com > >