Push item to associative array in PHP

Question

I\'ve been trying to push an item to an associative array like this:

$new_input[\'name\'] = array(
    \'type\' => \'text\', 
    \'label\' => \'First          


        

Answer 1

$options['inputs']['name'] = $new_input['name'];

Answer 2

Curtis's answer was very close to what I needed, but I changed it up a little.

Where he used:

$options['inputs']['name'][] = $new_input['name'];

I used:

$options[]['inputs']['name'] = $new_input['name'];

Here's my actual code using a query from a DB:

while($row=mysql_fetch_array($result)){ 
    $dtlg_array[]['dt'] = $row['dt'];
    $dtlg_array[]['lat'] = $row['lat'];
    $dtlg_array[]['lng'] = $row['lng'];
}

Thanks!

Answer 3

If $new_input may contain more than just a 'name' element you may want to use array_merge.

$new_input = array('name'=>array(), 'details'=>array());
$new_input['name'] = array('type'=>'text', 'label'=>'First name'...);
$options['inputs'] = array_merge($options['inputs'], $new_input);

Answer 4

Just change few snippet(use array_merge function):-

  $options['inputs']=array_merge($options['inputs'], $new_input);

Answer 5

You can use array_merge($array1, $array2) to merge the associative array. Example:

$a1=array("red","green");
$a2=array("blue","yellow");
print_r(array_merge($a1,$a2));

Output:

Array ( [0] => red [1] => green [2] => blue [3] => yellow )

Answer 6

This is a cool function

function array_push_assoc($array, $key, $value){
   $array[$key] = $value;
   return $array;
}

Just use

$myarray = array_push_assoc($myarray, 'h', 'hello');

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