Merge multiple associative arrays and add missing columns with a default value

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Yes you can use array_merge in this case:

$a = array('a' => 'some value', 'b' => 'some value', 'c' => 'some value');
$b = array('a' => 'another value', 'd' => 'another value', 'e' => 'another value', 'f' => 'another value');
$c = array('b' => 'some more value', 'x' => 'some more value', 'y' => 'some more value', 'z' => 'some more value');
$d = array($a, $b, $c);
$keys = array();
foreach(new RecursiveIteratorIterator(new RecursiveArrayIterator($d)) as $key => $val) $keys[$key] = '';
$data = array();
foreach($d as $values) {
    $data[] = array_merge($keys, $values);
}

echo '<pre>';
print_r($data);

EDIT: Another way would be to create key pair values with keys paired with empty, then, map each $d and merge:

$keys = array_keys(call_user_func_array('array_merge', $d));
$key_pair = array_combine($keys, array_fill(0, count($keys), null));
$values = array_map(function($e) use ($key_pair) {
    return array_merge($key_pair, $e);
}, $d);

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