Push item to associative array in PHP

Question

I\'ve been trying to push an item to an associative array like this:

$new_input[\'name\'] = array(
    \'type\' => \'text\', 
    \'label\' => \'First          


        

Answer 1

There is a better way to do this:

If the array $arr_options contains the existing array.

$arr_new_input['name'] = [
    'type' => 'text', 
    'label' => 'First name', 
    'show' => true, 
    'required' => true
];

$arr_options += $arr_new_input;

Warning: $arr_options must exist. if $arr_options already has a ['name'] it wil be overwritten.

Hope this helps.