php - How to merge array and preserve keys?

Question

I have two arrays:

$array1 = array('a' => 1, 'b' => 2, 'c' => 3);
$array2 = array('d' => 4, 'e' => 5, 'f' => 6, 'a' => 'new value', '123' => 456);

I want to merge them and keep the keys and the order and not re-index!!

How to get like this?

Array
(
    [a] => new value
    [b] => 2
    [c] => 3
    [d] => 4
    [e] => 5
    [f] => 6
    [123] => 456
)

I try to array_merge() but it will not be preserved the keys:

print_r(array_merge($array1, $array2));

Array
(
    [a] => 'new value'
    [b] => 2
    [c] => 3
    [d] => 4
    [e] => 5
    [f] => 6
    [0] => 456
)

I try to the union operator but it will not overwriting that element:

print_r($array1 + $array2);

Array
(
    [a] => 1   <-- not overwriting
    [b] => 2
    [c] => 3
    [d] => 4
    [e] => 5
    [f] => 6
    [123] => 456
)

I try to swapped place but the order is wrong, not my need:

print_r($array2 + $array1);

Array
(
    [d] => 4
    [e] => 5
    [f] => 6
    [a] => new value 
    [123] => 456
    [b] => 2
    [c] => 3
)

I dont want to use a loop, is there a way for high performance?

Answer 1

You're looking for array_replace():

$array1 = array('a' => 1, 'b' => 2, 'c' => 3);
$array2 = array('d' => 4, 'e' => 5, 'f' => 6, 'a' => 'new value', '123' => 456);
print_r(array_replace($array1, $array2));

Available since PHP 5.3.

Update

You can also use the union array operator; it works for older versions and might actually be faster too:

print_r($array2 + $array1);