Comparing 2 Arrays, and Updating to Match Dates

[iwpg]

Just dont know where to start, any guidance is greatly appreciated.

 

I have a charting program that can produce 2 array sets for different data and print it using the same time period/date. The problem that I have is there are some queries that produce missing dates (there is no data in this case). This shifts the array over into the wrong date. I added the dates to the array to compare, but I really don't know what to do with it. I thought about using array_merge, but Data1 needs to check Data2 values, and then backwards so the dates match (Year-Month). I know the array is a mess due to this, and re-writing it may be out of the question since there are thousands of records with similar info.

Data 1:Array ( [2012-04] => 14869 [2012-06] => 3214 [2012-07] => 5686 [2012-08] => 3937 [2012-09] => 4375 [2012-10] => 3049 [2012-11] => 2141 [2012-12] => 1685 [2013-01] => 1697 [2013-02] => 125 [2013-03] => 155 [2013-06] => 235 [2013-07] => 171 [2013-08] => 202 [2013-09] => 15 [2013-10] => 463 [2013-11] => 846 [2014-01] => 2617 ) Data 2:Array ( [2012-03] => 77250 [2012-04] => 66318 [2012-05] => 47291 [2012-06] => 54074 [2012-07] => 59331 [2012-08] => 65867 [2012-09] => 60705 [2012-10] => 67843 [2012-11] => 59960 [2012-12] => 58008 [2013-01] => 69416 [2013-02] => 60929 [2013-03] => 52830 [2013-04] => 47863 [2013-05] => 41873 [2013-06] => 37582 [2013-07] => 43731 [2013-08] => 45229 [2013-09] => 4486 [2013-10] => 45473 [2013-11] => 45706 [2013-12] => 54593 [2014-01] => 66230 ) 

 

A little more clarification, both arrays should have matching dates, if either is missing dates, the date should be taken from the other array and assigned 0 for it. This is what I would like the end result to be:

Data 1:Array ( [2012-03] => 0 [2012-04] => 14869 [2012-05] => 0 [2012-06] => 3214 [2012-07] => 5686 [2012-08] => 3937 [2012-09] => 4375 [2012-10] => 3049 [2012-11] => 2141 [2012-12] => 1685 [2013-01] => 1697 [2013-02] => 125 [2013-03] => 155 [2013-04] => 0 [2013-05] => 0 [2013-06] => 235 [2013-07] => 171 [2013-08] => 202 [2013-09] => 15 [2013-10] => 463 [2013-11] => 846 [2013-12] => 0 [2014-01] => 2617 ) Data 2:Array ( [2012-03] => 77250 [2012-04] => 66318 [2012-05] => 47291 [2012-06] => 54074 [2012-07] => 59331 [2012-08] => 65867 [2012-09] => 60705 [2012-10] => 67843 [2012-11] => 59960 [2012-12] => 58008 [2013-01] => 69416 [2013-02] => 60929 [2013-03] => 52830 [2013-04] => 47863 [2013-05] => 41873 [2013-06] => 37582 [2013-07] => 43731 [2013-08] => 45229 [2013-09] => 4486 [2013-10] => 45473 [2013-11] => 45706 [2013-12] => 54593 [2014-01] => 66230 ) 

[iwpg]

I'm starting to come to thoughts of a conclusion. Would it be feasible to check the first and last dates of each array, iterate through the range and then check it with strtotime + 1 month? 

[Zane]

Using this 5 year old example, http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.array-diff-key.php#82257 should help.

 

Using that array_unique_diff function, you should be able to have an array of all the unique and different keys.  Then you can iterate through those with a loop and add them to each array.with a value of 0.    If I understand you correctly.

function array_unique_diff ($array1, $array2) {
  return array_merge(array_diff_key($array1, $array2), array_diff_key($array2, $array1));
}

$a = array ( "one" => 1,  "two" => 2, "three" => 3 );
$b = array ( "one" => 56,  "two" => 2, "four" => 19 );

$missingKeys = array_unique_diff ( $a, $b );
foreach ( $missingKeys as $key=>$val ) {
     $a[$key] = 0;
     $b[$key] = 0;
}

That should change $a and $b to be

$a = array ( "one" => 1,  "two" => 2, "three" => 3, "four" => 0 );
$b = array ( "one" => 56,  "two" => 2, "three" => 0, "four" => 19 );

[iwpg]

I went through the array manuals first at php.net. Didn't catch this one. Thanks for helping me out, I truly appreciate it!

 

Mike

[iwpg]

Works perfect, also added ksort() to the arrays to get them back in order.