In array_merge example we have:
$array1 = array ("color" => "red", 2, 4);
$array2 = array ("a", "b", "color" => "green", "shape" => "trapezoid", 4);
array_merge ($array1, $array2);

But since array_merge returns an array it should look like this:
$array1 = array ("color" => "red", 2, 4);
$array2 = array ("a", "b", "color" => "green", "shape" => "trapezoid", 4);
$result = array_merge ($array1, $array2);

Just like in array_merge_recursive().