Push item to associative array in PHP

Question

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

$new_input['name'] = array(
    'type' => 'text', 
    'label' => 'First name', 
    'show' => true, 
    'required' => true
);
array_push($options['inputs'], $new_input);

However, instead of 'name' as the key in adds a number. Is there another way to do it?

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.