Question

I’m looking to use the array_replace function but the version of php I’m running doesn’t support it. I was wondering if anyone new of any alternative ways of doing this?

The version of php I’m running is 5.2.17

I have an array and I just want to replace elements with another array where the keys match.

I’m not able to update the version of php on the server btw 🙁

Answer 1

You mean something like this?

$array;
$replacement;
foreach ($array as $key => &$value) {
  if (array_key_exists($key, $replacement)) {
    $value = $replacement[$key];
  }
}

or just

foreach ($replacement as $key => $value) {
  $array[$key] = $value;
}

or maybe even

array_merge ($array, $replacement);

(I currently don’t see any difference in the behaviour of array_merge() and array_replace() …)