php subtract associative arrays

Question

I have two associative arrays. I need to subtract ($price - $tax) to get $total price:

 $price['lunch'] = array("food" => 10, "beer"=> 6, "wine" => 9);
 $price['dinner'] = array("food" => 15, "beer"=> 10, "wine" => 10);

 $tax['lunch'] = array("food" => 2, "beer"=> 3, "wine" => 2);
 $tax['dinner'] = array("food" => 4, "beer"=> 6, "wine" => 4);

Desired result array:

 $result['lunch'] = (['food'] => 8, ['beer'] =>3, ['wine'] => 7 )
 $result['dinner'] = (['food'] => 11, ['beer'] =>4, ['wine'] => 6   )

I'm trying following function and array_map to no avail:

function minus($a, $b) {
    return $a - $b;
 }

      foreach ($price as  $value)
        {
            $big = $value;
            foreach($tax as $v) {
                $small = $v;
        $e[] = array_map("minus",$big, $small);
        }       
        }

With above i get four arrays (first and last one is correct though) so it's not correct. Thanks for any info!

Answer 1

You could compare using keys instead of array mapping. With a double foreach, you can do any number of meals and food types:

foreach(array_keys($price) as $meal)
{
    foreach(array_keys($price[$meal]) as $type)
    {
        $e[$meal][$type] = $price[$meal][$type] - $tax[$meal][$type];
    }
}

Note, this code doesn't look out for missing items in either the meals or the food types...