Create an array/collection/list of (Date,Value) in PHP

Question

I am writing a PHP script where the inputs are:

From date
To date

I then want to take that date range and create an array of some sort that has

Answer 1

(Untested)

function dateArray($from, $to, $value = NULL) {
    $begin = new DateTime($from);
    $end = new DateTime($to);
    $interval = DateInterval::createFromDateString('1 day');
    $days = new DatePeriod($begin, $interval, $end);

    $baseArray = array();
    foreach ($days as $day) {
        $dateKey = $day->format("Y-m-d");
        $baseArray[$dateKey] = $value;
    }

    return $baseArray;
}

$datesArray = dateArray('2011-01-01', '2011-03-31',true);