PHP array learning: how to swap the positions of key names and values

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This article The theme is "Exchanging the positions of the key name and the value", which simply means exchanging the key name and key value in the array.

For this operation, there is a built-in function in PHP that has this function, that is thearray_flip($array)function.

Let’s take a closer look at the following example

Output results:

Description: In the $array array The value needs to be a valid key name (such as int or string), a warning will be issued if the value is of the wrong type, and the key-value pair in question will not be reversed.

If the same key value appears multiple times, the last key name will be used as its value, and all others will be lost.

 1, "b" => 1, "c" => 2); var_dump($arr); var_dump(array_flip($arr)); ?>

Output result:

It can be seen that using array_flip() can exchange key names and key values very quickly. So if you don't use the array_flip() function, how to exchange key names and key values? Let me introduce it to you below.

Idea:

• First usearray_keys($array)to get the key names in the array and return an array of key names;

• Then use array_values($array)Get the values of all elements in the array and return an array of key values;

• Finally usearray_combine($keys,$values)To merge two arrays to create a new array, the first parameter will be used as the key name of the new array, and the second parameter will be used as the key value of the new array. (If you don’t know about the array_combine() function, you can read the article "PHP Array Learning: How to Create Arrays by Merging")
  

Implementation code:

Output result:

If there are multiple identical key values, the processing method is similar to the array_flip() function, using the last key name as its value, all others are lost.

Output result:

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