Question

I need to add key and value to an existing array and don’t seem to be able to get it together.

My existing array when printed looks like this:

Array
(
    [0] => stdClass Object
        (
            [id] => 787
            [name] => Steve
            [surname] => Ryan
            [email] => [e-mail]
        )

    [1] => stdClass Object
        (
            [id] => 1057
            [name] => Peter
            [surname] => Smith
            [email] => [e-mail]
        )

    [2] => stdClass Object
        (
            [id] => 1058
            [name] => Chris
            [surname] => Gill
            [email] => [e-mail]
        )

)

I need to add a few details to this array on the fly from a string that looks like this:

Topher:[e-mail]
Elvis:[e-mail]
Marilyn:[e-mail]

Each entry is seperated by a new line and the name and email address is seperated by a :

So in the end my array would look like this:

Array
(
    [0] => stdClass Object
        (
            [id] => 787
            [name] => Steve
            [surname] => Ryan
            [email] => [e-mail]
        )

    [1] => stdClass Object
        (
            [id] => 1057
            [name] => Peter
            [surname] => Smith
            [email] => [e-mail]
        )

    [2] => stdClass Object
        (
            [id] => 1058
            [name] => Chris
            [surname] => James
            [email] => [e-mail]
        )
    [3] => stdClass Object
        (
            [id] => 
            [name] => Topher
            [surname] => 
            [email] => [e-mail]
        )
    [4] => stdClass Object
        (
            [id] => 
            [name] => Elvis
            [surname] => 
            [email] => [e-mail]
        )
    [5] => stdClass Object
        (
            [id] => 
            [name] => Marilyn
            [surname] => 
            [email] => [e-mail]
        )

)

I looked at array_push but couldn’t work it out.

Any help with this is very much sppreciated.

C

Answer 1

Using PHP Arrays’ [] operator is the same as pushing a value to the end of an array.

$arr[] = 'new element in array';

A full solution to your example would be

$CharacterInput = <<<EOT
Topher:[e-mail]
Elvis:[e-mail]
Marilyn:[e-mail]
EOT;

$lines = explode("\n", $CharacterInput);

$People = array();

foreach($lines as $line) {
    list($name, $email) = explode(':', $line);

    $entry = array(
        'id' => null,
        'name' => $name,
        'surname' => null,
        'email' => $email,
    );

    // cast the entered data array to an object,
    // which is explicitly stated in the example output.
    // For plain arrays, remove the following line.
    $entry = (object) $entry;

    $People[] = $entry;
}

print_r($People);

which outputs

Array
(
 [0] => stdClass Object
 (
 [id] => 
 [name] => Topher
 [surname] => 
 [email] => [e-mail]
 )

 [1] => stdClass Object
 (
 [id] => 
 [name] => Elvis
 [surname] => 
 [email] => [e-mail]
 )

 [2] => stdClass Object
 (
 [id] => 
 [name] => Marilyn
 [surname] => 
 [email] => [e-mail]
 )

)