ID: 27162 Updated by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reported By: tomas dot matousek at matfyz dot cz -Status: Open +Status: Bogus Bug Type: Arrays related Operating System: WinXP PHP Version: 4CVS, 5CVS New Comment:
There is no bug in this. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2004-02-06 14:11:01] tomas dot matousek at matfyz dot cz "If the input arrays have the same string keys, then the values for these keys are merged together into an array ..." Of course that the values are merged. But the way in which are merged is IMHO wrong. Keys are reindexed starting from 0 in the first level of recursion but in the next levels reindexing is different. As one can see on the output of an example above. Why? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2004-02-06 10:46:48] [EMAIL PROTECTED] >From the manual: "If the input arrays have the same string keys, then the values for these keys are merged together into an array, and this is done recursively, so that if one of the values is an array itself, the function will merge it with a corresponding entry in another array too. If, however, the arrays have the same numeric key, the later value will not overwrite the original value, but will be appended." ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2004-02-06 03:41:09] tomas dot matousek at matfyz dot cz Maybe the example I used was not understood well. I don't want indexing to be propagated thru array dimensions. IMHO array_merge_recursive is indexing in two different ways depending of the level of recursion. This is better example: Reproduce code: --------------- $ar1 = array(10=>10, 7=>7); $ar2 = array(10=>10, 7=>7); print_r(array_merge_recursive($ar1, $ar2)); $ar1 = array("a" => array(10=>10, 7=>7)); $ar2 = array("a" => array(10=>10, 7=>7)); print_r(array_merge_recursive($ar1, $ar2)); $ar1 = array("a" => array("a" => array(10=>10, 7=>7))); $ar2 = array("a" => array("a" => array(10=>10, 7=>7))); print_r(array_merge_recursive($ar1, $ar2)); Actual result: -------------- Array ( [0] => 10 [1] => 7 [2] => 10 [3] => 7 ) Array ( [a] => Array ( [10] => 10 [7] => 7 [11] => 10 [12] => 7 ) ) Array ( [a] => Array ( [a] => Array ( [10] => 10 [7] => 7 [11] => 10 [12] => 7 ) ) ) Expected result is the same as above. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2004-02-05 21:48:16] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you for taking the time to write to us, but this is not a bug. Please double-check the documentation available at http://www.php.net/manual/ and the instructions on how to report a bug at http://bugs.php.net/how-to-report.php This is to be expected. Indexing of any array always starts from element 0 and is not carried over across array dimensions. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2004-02-05 14:49:07] tomas dot matousek at matfyz dot cz Description: ------------ Function array_merge_recursive merges arrays recursivelly but the behavior of merging is different in the first level from the next ones. Merging of arrays in the second and next levels starts key indexing from the key of the first item merged but on the first level it starts always from zero. Maybe it is a feature but IMHO it would be better to implement the same behavior on each level of a recursion. Reproduce code: --------------- $ar1 = array(4=>4, 5=>5); $ar2 = array(4=>4, 5=>5); print_r(array_merge_recursive($ar1, $ar2)); $ar1 = array("a" => array(4=>4, 5=>5)); $ar2 = array("a" => array(4=>4, 5=>5)); print_r(array_merge_recursive($ar1, $ar2)); $ar1 = array("a" => array("a" => array(4=>4, 5=>5))); $ar2 = array("a" => array("a" => array(4=>4, 5=>5))); print_r(array_merge_recursive($ar1, $ar2)); Expected result: ---------------- Array ( [0] => 4 [1] => 5 [2] => 4 [3] => 5 ) Array ( [a] => Array ( [0] => 4 [1] => 5 [2] => 4 [3] => 5 ) ) Array ( [a] => Array ( [a] => Array ( [0] => 4 [1] => 5 [2] => 4 [3] => 5 ) ) ) Actual result: -------------- Array ( [0] => 4 [1] => 5 [2] => 4 [3] => 5 ) Array ( [a] => Array ( [4] => 4 [5] => 5 [6] => 4 [7] => 5 ) ) Array ( [a] => Array ( [a] => Array ( [4] => 4 [5] => 5 [6] => 4 [7] => 5 ) ) ) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=27162&edit=1