note 92224 modified in function.array-replace-recursive by danbrown

This might help out people who don't have 5.3 running: <?php // Joins two or more arrays together recursively; key/value pairs of the first // array are replaced with key/value pairs from the subsequent arrays. Any // key/value pair not present in the first array is added to the final array function array_join() { // Get array arguments $arrays = func_get_args(); // Define the original array $original = array_shift($arrays); // Loop through arrays foreach ($arrays as $array) { // Loop through array key/value pairs foreach ($array as $key => $value) { // Value is an array if (is_array($value)) { // Traverse the array; replace or add result to original array $original[$key] = array_join($original[$key], $array[$key]); } // Value is not an array else { // Replace or add current value to original array $original[$key] = $value; } } } // Return the joined array return $original; } ?> --was-- Function corrected from below: <? // Joins two or more arrays together recursively; key/value pairs of the first // array are replaced with key/value pairs from the subsequent arrays. Any // key/value pair not present in the first array is added to the final array function array_join() { // Get array arguments $arrays = func_get_args(); // Define the original array $original = array_shift($arrays); // Loop through arrays foreach ($arrays as $array) { // Loop through array key/value pairs foreach ($array as $key => $value) { // Value is an array if (is_array($value)) { // Traverse the array; replace or add result to original array $original[$key] = array_join($original[$key], $array[$key]); } // Value is not an array else { // Replace or add current value to original array $original[$key] = $value; } } } // Return the joined array return $original; } ?> http://php.net/manual/en/function.array-replace-recursive.php