Question

I have an associative arrays and an array of keys.

$A = array('a'=>'book', 'b'=>'pencil', 'c'=>'pen');
$B = array('a', 'b');

How I build an associative array from all element of $A where the key is in $B?
For the example above, the answer should be

$C = array('a'=>'book', 'b'=>'pencil');

Answer 1

$keys = array_keys($B);
$C = array();
foreach ($A as $key => $value)
{
  if (in_array($key, $keys))
  {
    $C[$key] = $value;
  }
}