Question

I am trying to merge an item from one array and a full array from another I cant figure out what is the best solution?

Here is what I have:

$name = $item['name'];
// Returns = Admin

The $item['authority'] actually pulls back link this:

adverts,blog,comments

So I put them into there own array:

$auth = explode(",", $item['authority']); 

// Returns
array(4) {
  [0]=> string(7) "adverts"
  [1]=> string(4) "blog"
  [2]=> string(8) "comments"
  [3]=>
}

I want to merge them into 1 array is this possible or what would be the best solution?

$joined = array_merge($name, $auth);

Answer 1

Just create a new array:

$joined = array( 'name' => $name, 'auth' => $auth);

This will create a multidimensional array. You can’t use array_merge() on $name since it’s $name isn’t an array. But, you could do:

$joined = array_merge( array( $name), $auth);