diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 4bc8ceda4..a7475d19a 100755
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ phpMyAdmin - Changelog
 $Id$
 $Source$
 
+2005-12-05 Sebastian Mendel <cybot_tm@users.sourceforge.net>
+    * libraries/common.lib.php: added PMA_array_merge_recursive()
+
 2005-12-05 Michal Čihař  <michal@cihar.com>
     * many files: Use same script tag, use CDATA for scripts (RFE #995065).
     * export.php: Check for correct parameters.
@@ -36,7 +39,6 @@ $Source$
       tbl_indexes.php: revised XHTML output
     * themes/original/css/theme_left|right_css.php: use $GLOBALS
 
-
 2005-12-01 Sebastian Mendel <cybot_tm@users.sourceforge.net>
     * libraries/common.lib.php, Theme.class.php:
       missing '/' in img path (bug #1370437)
@@ -64,7 +66,6 @@ $Source$
     * scripts/setup.php, scripts/upgrade.pl: use class PMA_Config
     * scripts/create-release.sh: removed references to defines.lib.php
 
-
 2005-11-29 Michal Čihař  <michal@cihar.com>
     * lang/sync_lang.sh: Add workaround for multibyte chars that can contain \
       as last byte.
diff --git a/libraries/common.lib.php b/libraries/common.lib.php
index c2a42563b..06928d81c 100644
--- a/libraries/common.lib.php
+++ b/libraries/common.lib.php
@@ -400,6 +400,55 @@ function PMA_dl( $module ) {
     return @dl( $module_file );
 }
 
+/**
+ * merges array recursive like array_merge_recursive() but keyed-values are
+ * always overwritten.
+ *
+ * array PMA_array_merge_recursive( array array1 [, array array2 [, array ...]] )
+ *
+ * @see     http://php.net/array_merge
+ * @see     http://php.net/array_merge_recursive
+ * @uses    func_num_args()
+ * @uses    func_get_arg()
+ * @uses    is_array()
+ * @uses    call_user_func_array()
+ * @param   array   array to merge
+ * @param   array   array to merge
+ * @param   array   ...
+ * @return  array   merged array
+ */
+function PMA_array_merge_recursive() {
+    switch( func_num_args() ) {
+        case 0 :
+            return false;
+            break;
+        case 1 :
+            return func_get_arg(0);
+            break;
+        case 2 :
+            $args = func_get_args();
+            if ( ! is_array($args[0]) || ! is_array($args[1]) ) {
+                return $args[1];
+            }
+            foreach ( $args[1] AS $key2 => $value2 ) {
+                if ( isset( $args[0][$key2] ) ) {
+                    $args[0][$key2] = PMA_array_merge_recursive($args[0][$key2],
+                        $value2);
+                } else {
+                    $args[0][$key2] = $value2;
+                }
+            }
+            return $args[0];
+            break;
+        default :
+            $args = func_get_args();
+            $args[1] = PMA_array_merge_recursive($args[0], $args[1]);
+            array_shift($args);
+            return call_user_func_array('PMA_array_merge_recursive', $args);
+            break;
+    }
+}
+
 /**
  * include here only libraries which contain only function definitions
  * no code im main()!