How to mix two arrays?

[etrader]

I have some similar arrays. How I can combine them to shuffle the new array?

[johnny86]

I don't really understand what you are trying to achieve but:

 

$arr1 = some_array_with_values;

$arr2 = other_array_with_values;

 

$merged = array_merge($arr1, $arr2);

shuffle($merged);

[etrader]

I have two xml files as

$xml1 = simplexml_load_file("1.xml");
$xml2 = simplexml_load_file("2.xml");

 

and want to merge them to create an array for a foreach process.

[johnny86]

That depends on what you have in your xml files. You might get away with casting your SimpleXMLElements as arrays and then do the things you need. But if you need to get specific information from your dom tree you should just traverse it and add that information in array.

 

You could also extend SimpleXMLElement and create some kind of method to get the type of array that you need. And use the extended class when you load the file like this: simplexml_load_file('file1.xml', 'extendedSimpleXMLElement');