Reorganizing an array: odd entries as KEY, even entries as VALUE

Question

I'm trying to finish up a URL router that I created for my custom MVC framework. I have a list of parameters that I dissected from the URL, but the problem is that they only have numerical keys. What I want to do is set it up so the first value in the $params array will be the KEY and then the second value in the array is the VALUE of the first KEY. But I need to take it beyond that even further. Essentially, I need all odd number key's value in the array to be the new KEY and the even number key's value to be the value.

Example:

This is how it's CURRENTLY set up:

Array
(
  [0] => greeting
  [1] => hello
  [2] => question
  [3] => how-are-you
  [4] => response
  [5] => im-fine
)

This is how it NEEDS to be (after conversion):

Array
(
  [greeting] => hello
  [question] => how-are-you
  [response] => im-fine
)

Would it be easier to create this type of array when I explode the string by the '/' delimiter when I'm taking it out of the URL string? If so, what would be the best function for that?

It's probably a simple solution, because I'm sure this is a common issue, but any enlightenment?

Answer 1

Maybe use array_splice() for that?

$result = array();

while (count($urls)) {
    list($key,$value) = array_splice($urls, 0, 2);
    $result[$key] = $value;
}

This will extract the first two entries from the URL list and use those as key and value for the resulting array. Repeats, until the source list is empty.

Answer 2

Something like:

$data = array (
  'greeting',
  'hello',
  'question',
  'how-are-you',
  'response',
  'im-fine',
);

$new = array();

for ($i = 0, $lim = sizeof($data); $i < $lim; $i += 2) {
  $new[$data[$i]] = isset($data[$i + 1]) ? $data[$i + 1] : null;
}

print_r($new);

Answer 3

I don't know if it the best solution but what I did is

           $previousElement = null;
            foreach ($features as $key => $feature) {
                //check if key is even, otherwise it's odd
                if ($key % 2 === 0) {
                    $features[$feature] = $feature;
                } else {
                    $features[$previousElement] = $feature;
                }
                //saving element so I can "remember" it in next loop
                $previousElement = $feature;
                unset($features[$key]);
            }

Answer 4

The best way to do it is with chunking it and using it in list.

$array = array("greeting", "hello", "question", "how-are-you", "response", "im-fine");

$assoc = array();
   foreach (array_chunk($array, 2) as $pair) {
   list($key, $value) = $pair;
   $assoc[$key] = $value;
}

var_export($assoc);

/*
   array (
       'greeting' => 'hello',
       'question' => 'how-are-you',
       'response' => 'im-fine',
  )
*/

found here

Answer 5

just because no one else has pointed it out, this works and is at least as good as the built in functions for performance:

$array = array("greeting", "hello", "question", "how-are-you", "response", "im-fine");
$res = array();
for($i=0; $i < count($array); $i+=2){
    $res[$array[$i]] = $array[$i+1];
}