Question

Just wanted to add a new parameter in the front of my array with array_unshift, but: If I do it like usual, it has an numeric index. How can I decline the index, e.g. something like that…

<?php
$queue = array("a", "B");
array_unshift($queue, "front" => "hello" ); //Not working, this is my question ;)
?>

The array would then look like

Array {
    front => hello
    0 => a
    1 => B
}

Answer 1

Looks like array_unshift cannot do what you want. Try this:

$queue = array('a', 'B');
$queue = array_merge(array('front' => 'hello'), $queue);

This gives the result you want.

Array
(
    [front] => hello
    [0] => a
    [1] => b
)