array_merge() not working as expected?

[hwij3]

I have an associative array which store a record of an event table, lets call it $A
and I have $events which contains many records of $A (so $events is a 2 dimension array)

Now I need to examine the $events and copy some of it to another variable called $theEvents
I'm using array_merge but the result is not as I expected.
It seems like everything is combined into a 1-dimension array.

My coding is something like this:
if($events = haveEvent($Day_Counter,$Month,$Year)
{
$theEvents = array();
foreach ($events as $eve)
{
if($eve[personal]=="N" || $eve[eclub]==$session[id])
$theEvents = array_merge($theEvents, $eve);
}

foreach ($theEvents as $event)
     print $event[ename];

}

The result was I got an event with 30 fields which actually I should have 3 events with 10 fields each.
Any suggestion?
Thank you in advance

[bbaassiri]

by the looks of it the first if statement isn't doing a comparison but actually an assignment, is that the desired affect.?

[bbaassiri]

<pre>
foreach ($events as $eve)
{
if($eve[personal]=="N" || $eve[eclub]==$session[id])
$theEvents += $eve;
}
</pre>

try this approach, it works well for multi dimension arrays