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John Manning
John Manning

Reputation: 39

php replace array value with another array value that is out of order

How would you write a sorting routine in PHP that would replace the values of an array's keys, with another array's key value's if the former array's key value's are out of order.

$array1 = ['section2', 'section3', 'section1'];
$array2 = ['content for section1', 'content for section2', 'content section3'];

How could I replace the values of $array1 with the corrosponding content in $array2?

So I guess what I'm asking is how can I make $array1 display the following....

content for section2
content for section3
content for section1

in that order....

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1812

Answers (1)

Pedro Lobito
Pedro Lobito

Reputation: 98931

Loop both arrays and check if the value of $array1 exists while looping $array2, if so, change the value of $array1 to the $array2 value based on the key, so you can keep the order, i.e.:

$array1 = ['section2', 'section3', 'section1'];
$array2 = ['content for section1', 'content for section2', 'content for section3'];

foreach($array1 as $key => $value){
    foreach($array2 as $key2 => $value2){
        if(preg_match("/$value/", $value2)){
            $array1[$key] = $value2;
        }
    }
}

print_r($array1);

Output:

Array
(
    [0] => content for section2
    [1] => content for section3
    [2] => content for section1
)

Ideone Demo

Upvotes: 1

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