PHP prepend associative array with literal keys?

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Is it possible to prepend an associative array with literal key=>value pairs? I know that array_unshift() works with numerical keys, but I'm hoping for something that will work with literal keys.

As an example I'd like to do the following:

$array1 = array('fruit3'=>'apple', 'fruit4'=>'orange');
$array2 = array('fruit1'=>'cherry', 'fruit2'=>'blueberry');

// prepend magic

$resulting_array = ('fruit1'=>'cherry', 
                    'fruit2'=>'blueberry', 
                    'fruit3'=>'apple', 
                    'fruit4'=>'orange');
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5 Answers

Using the same method as @mvpetrovich, you can use the shorthand version of an array to shorten the syntax.

$_array = array_merge(["key1" => "key_value"], $_old_array);

References:

PHP: array_merge()

PHP: Arrays - Manual

As of PHP 5.4 you can also use the short array syntax, which replaces array() with [].

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