Question

Consider this contrived example. The following array works fine if I want to convert English to Spanish.

$translate = array( 'one'    => 'uno',
                    'two'    => 'dos',
                    'three'  => 'tres'
            );

echo $translate['one'];

But how do I convert from Spanish to English? Can this be done with an associative array or is there a better way to do this?

Answer 1

echo array_search ('uno', $translate);

However, it might be faster if you want to translate multiple words the other way around to remap the array:

$translate_reverse = array_flip ($translate);
echo $translate_reverse ['uno'];