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

You can try.

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

Answer 2

Instead of array_push(), use array_merge()

It will merge two arrays and combine their items in a single array.

Example Code -

$existing_array = array('a'=>'b', 'b'=>'c');
$new_array = array('d'=>'e', 'f'=>'g');

$final_array=array_merge($existing_array, $new_array);

Its returns the resulting array in the final_array. And results of resulting array will be -

array('a'=>'b', 'b'=>'c','d'=>'e', 'f'=>'g')

Please review this link, to be aware of possible problems.

Answer 3

WebbieDave's solution will work. If you don't want to overwrite anything that might already be at 'name', you can also do something like this:

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

Answer 4

i use php5.6

code:

$person = ["name"=>"mohammed", "age"=>30];

$person['addr'] = "Sudan";

print_r($person) 

output

Array( ["name"=>"mohammed", "age"=>30, "addr"=>"Sudan"] )

Answer 5

$new_input = array('type' => 'text', 'label' => 'First name', 'show' => true, 'required' => true);
$options['inputs']['name'] = $new_input;

Answer 6

There is a better way to do this:

If the array $arr_options contains the existing array.

$arr_new_input['name'] = [
    'type' => 'text', 
    'label' => 'First name', 
    'show' => true, 
    'required' => true
];

$arr_options += $arr_new_input;

Warning: $arr_options must exist. if $arr_options already has a ['name'] it wil be overwritten.

Hope this helps.