How to merge included arrays of the same variable name?

[cheneymac]

There are multiple php arrays on my network that I would like to merge into a single array, but I am not sure how as they are all assigned to the same variable names.

 

For instance file a.php contains only a multidimensional array:

<?php $mocks = array(array(),array()); ?>

 

Files b.php and c.php contain the exact same php code with different content stored in their arrays.

 

I am including these files' contents into another file: xyz.php.  In xyz.php how do I merge the array contents of a.php, b.php, c.php into a single array even though each of those three files assigns their respective arrays to the $mocks variable?  Unfortunately, each of the included files is owned by a separate person, and so I cannot alter those files, such as changing the variable name to something unique, without crashing applications written by the file owners.

[sasa]

try

$file_names=array('a.php','b.php','c.php');
$total = array();
foreach($file_names as $name){
   include($name);
   $total[] = $mocks;
}