array_splice() for associative arrays

Question

Say I have an associative array:

array(   "color" => "red",   "taste" => "sweet",   "season" => "summer" ); 

and I want to introduce a new element into it:

"texture" => "bumpy"  

behind the 2nd item but preserving all the array keys:

array(   "color" => "red",   "taste" => "sweet",   "texture" => "bumpy",    "season" => "summer" ); 

is there a function to do that? array_splice() won't cut it, it can work with numeric keys only.

Answer 1

I think you need to do that manually:

# Insert at offset 2 $offset = 2; $newArray = array_slice($oldArray, 0, $offset, true) +             array('texture' => 'bumpy') +             array_slice($oldArray, $offset, NULL, true); 

Answer 2

Based on soulmerge's answer I created this handy function:

function array_insert($array,$values,$offset) {     return array_slice($array, 0, $offset, true) + $values + array_slice($array, $offset, NULL, true);   }