In PHP, how do you change the key of an array element?

Question

I have an associative array in the form key => value where key is a numerical value, however it is not a sequential numerical value. The key is actually an I

Answer 1

You can write simple function that applies the callback to the keys of the given array. Similar to array_map

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$array = ['a' => 1, 'b' => 'test', 'c' => ['x' => 1, 'y' => 2]];
$newArray = array_map_keys(function($key) { return 'new' . ucfirst($key); }, $array);

echo json_encode($array); // {"a":1,"b":"test","c":{"x":1,"y":2}}
echo json_encode($newArray); // {"newA":1,"newB":"test","newC":{"x":1,"y":2}}

Here is a gist https://gist.github.com/vardius/650367e15abfb58bcd72ca47eff096ca#file-array_map_keys-php.