php associative array key order (not sort)

Question

My array:

$data = array(\'two\' => 2, \'one\' => 1, \'three\' => 3);

Now, with when I iterate the array, the first value that wil

Answer 1

Two possible solutions (without using array_splice):

1) Create a new array with the new order of the keys.

$new_keys = array('one', 'two', 'three');
$new_data = array();
foreach ($new_keys as $key) {
    $new_data[$key] = $data[$key];
}
$data = $new_data;

2) Move the element one upfront, remove it from $data and copy the rest of the array.

function rearrangeData($data) {
    $result['one'] = $data['one'];
    unset($data['one']);
    return array_merge($result, $data);
}    
$data = rearrangeData($data);