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<?php $assoc_arr = array("second" => array( array("position" => 4, "content" => "Valiant"), array("position" => 5, "content" => "Hail") ), "first" => array( array("position" => 0, "content" => "Hail"), array("position" => 3, "content" => "Victors"), array("position" => 2, "content" => "the"), array("position" => 1, "content" => "to") ) ); $order = array('first','second'); $arr = array(); foreach($order as $ord) { if(isset($assoc_arr[$ord])) { $arr = array_merge($arr, $assoc_arr[$ord]); } } $finalArray = array(); $proceed = true; $i = 0; foreach($arr as $a) { $finalArray[$a['position']] = $a['content']; } ksort($finalArray); print_r($finalArray);