Push item to associative array in PHP

Question

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

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

However, instead of 'name' as the key in adds a number. Is there another way to do it?

Answer 1

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

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') 

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