I have a PHP array that has literal_key => value. I need to shift the key and value off the beginning of the array and stick it at the end (keeping the key also).
I've tried:
$f = array_shift($fields);
array_push($fields, $f);
but this loses the key value. Ex:
$fields = array ("hey" => "there", "how are" => "you");
// run above
this yields:
$fields = array ("how are" => "you", "0" => "there");
(I need to keep "hey" and not have 0) any ideas?
As far as I can tell, you can't add an associative value to an array with array_push(), nor get the key with array_shift(). (same goes for pop/push). A quick hack could be:
$fields = array( "key0" => "value0", "key1" => "value1");
//Get the first key
reset($fields);
$first_key = key($fields);
$first_value = $fields[$first_key];
unset($fields[$first_key]);
$fields[$first_key] = $first_value;
See it work here. Some source code taken from https://stackoverflow.com/a/1028677/1216976
reset($fields); list($k, $v) = each($fields); unset($fields[$k]); $fields[$k] = $v;You could just take the 0th key $key using array_keys, then set $value using array_shift, then set $fields[$key] = $value.
Or you could do something fancy like
array_merge( array_slice($fields, 1, NULL, true),
array_slice($fields, 0, 1, true) );
which is untested but has the right idea.
