I needed to compare an array with associative keys to an array that contained some of the keys to the associative array. Basically, I just wanted to return only a few of the entries in the original array, and the keys to the entries I wanted were stored in another array. This is pretty straightforward (although complicated to explain), but I couldn't find a good function for comparing values to keys. So I wrote this relatively straightforward one:
<?php
function key_values_intersect($values,$keys) {
foreach($keys AS $key) {
$key_val_int[$key] = $values[$key];
}
return $key_val_int;
}
$big = array("first"=>2,"second"=>7,"third"=>3,"fourth"=>5);
$subset = array("first","third");
print_r(key_values_intersect($big,$subset));
?>
This will return:
Array ( [first] => 2 [third] => 3 )
