automatically populate arrays

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Strangely enough I haven't found any question or answers to my problem (should be quite basic), so I will ask it here.

in PHP If I have an array named myArray that I don't know the contents of, then I can't do this:

$myArray[20] = "some string";

because entry 20 may already exist.

So is there a way to automatically insert a string as the last entry, so nothing is overwritten in the array?

php.net/manual/en/function.count.php php.net/manual/en/function.array-push.php — sinisake
– sinisake, Commented Jun 9, 2014 at 12:10
That site says that rather than using array_push, to assign like this $array[] = $var; Thank you for pointing me in the right direction :) — Robin Cox
– Robin Cox, Commented Jun 9, 2014 at 12:17

Ryan · Accepted Answer · 2014-06-09 12:21:24Z

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You could just add the new item to your array like:

$myArray[] = "some string";

This would automatically add it to the end of your existing array without overwriting existing array entries.

answered Jun 9, 2014 at 12:21

Ryan

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