[Editor's note: changed array_merge_recursive() to array_replace_recursive() to fix the script]
Here is a better way to merge settings using some defaults as a whitelist.
<?php
$defaults = [
'id' => 123456,
'client_id' => null,
'client_secret' => null,
'options' => [
'trusted' => false,
'active' => false
]
];
$options = [
'client_id' => 789,
'client_secret' => '5ebe2294ecd0e0f08eab7690d2a6ee69',
'client_password' => '5f4dcc3b5aa765d61d8327deb882cf99', 'client_name' => 'IGNORED', 'options' => [
'active' => true
]
];
var_dump(
array_replace_recursive($defaults,
array_intersect_key(
$options, $defaults
)
)
);
?>
Output:
array (size=4)
'id' => int 123456
'client_id' => int 789
'client_secret' => string '5ebe2294ecd0e0f08eab7690d2a6ee69' (length=32)
'options' =>
array (size=2)
'trusted' => boolean false
'active' => boolean true
