Question

I have an array which looks like this:

array(10) {
  [0]=>
  string(10) "2012-11-03"
  [1]=>
  string(1) "1"
  [2]=>
  string(10) "2012-11-04"
  [3]=>
  string(1) "3"
  [4]=>
  string(10) "2012-11-05"
  [5]=>
  string(1) "2"
  [6]=>
  string(10) "2012-11-06"
  [7]=>
  string(1) "7"
  [8]=>
  string(10) "2012-11-07"
  [9]=>
  string(1) "4"
}

I would like to get a new multidimensional array from this which would have 5 elements, where each element would look like this: $date => $number.

array(5) {
      [0]=> array(2012-11-03 => 1)
      [1]=> array(2012-11-04 => 3)
      [2]=> array(2012-11-05 => 2)
      [3]=> array(2012-11-06 => 7)
      [4]=> array(2012-11-07 => 4)
    }

I would like to use the dates as keys to te values that come after them. (I would eventually like to plot these values on a line chart, where x axis has the date and y has the value)

What kind of a (foreach?) loop can I write to do this?

I am getting this array from the following lines of code:

$data = "$start_date\n$value\n";
file_put_contents($id . '.csv', $data, FILE_APPEND);
$data = file_get_contents($id . '.csv');
$data_array = explode("\n", trim($data, "\n"));
var_dump($data_array); exit;

Answer 1

I assume that your array contains an even number of elements, as expected.

You can use the following snippet:

<?php

$newArray = [];
for ($i = 0; $i < count($data_array); $i += 2) {
    $newArray[$data_array[$i]] = $data_array[$i + 1];
}

^ Above code says that we start at index 0 of $data_array, which is a date. It makes a key in newArray from the even element, and attaches the value of the next odd element to this key. The array will look like this:

Array(
    '2012-11-03' => "1",
    '2012-11-04' => "3",
    '2012-11-05' => "2",
    ...
)