I am not sure whether this will bring the desired result but have a look at the union operator http://lu.php.net/manual/en/language.operators.array.php
Good luck Claudia On Feb 7, 4:07 pm, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is not strictly a CakePHP question but I hope that is OK. > > I am trying to merge two arrays. One containing dummy-data for each > hour of the day, the other containing actual data extracted from a > model for only some hours. > > All keys are strings but keys that looks like nice integers to php > gets treated as such. That sucks. I specifically set them as string > for a reason. for a number of good and bad reasons I really don't want > to rethink everything around this by using all numbers. I also would > like to avoid using another for-loop when there are merge-functions. > > Is there a way to get array_merge() or Set::merge() to comply? > Is there a way to merge these two arrays in the way I would expect > them to be merged? > > code: > Part of the dummy array > ( > [08] => 0 > [09] => 0 > [10] => 0 > [11] => 0 > [12] => 0 > ) > Part of the data to merge int it > ( > [10] => 5 > [12] => 3 > [09] => 4 > ) > Value '09' is padded and thus still a string. 10 and 12 is treated as > numbers (dispite being generated as strings) and totally mess up the > resulting array. The mess is different depending on the merge function > I use. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cake PHP" group. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
