Merge arrays of associative arrays by shared column values

you can try array_reduce:

$someVariable="someValue";
$result = array_reduce(array_merge($array1, $array2), function ($carry, $item) use ($someVariable) {
    if (isset($carry[$item['category_id']])) {
        $carry[$item['category_id']] = array_merge($carry[$item['category_id']], $item);
    } else {
        $carry[$item['category_id']] = $item;
    }
    return $carry;
}, array());

var_dump($result);

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