Question

I have an array:

$countries = array( 
 "af" => "Afghanistan",
 "ax" => "Åland Islands",
 "al" => "Albania",
 "dz" => "Algeria"
);

and some variables:

$as = "American Samoa";
$ad = "Andorra";

How do I combine the variables into the array while keeping the variable name as the key in the array?

Answer 1

You can use compact to create an array out of your variables and then simply add the two arrays together:

$countries += compact('as', 'ad');

See it in action.