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Is there a way to explode an a string into an assoc array with keys from another array? example: i have an array

$array = array('firstname' => 'john', 'lastname' => 'smith');

now i have another piece of string like:

$fullname = 'Paul Phoenix';

so now i want to explode fullname into an array similar to $array with the same keys

$array2 = array('firstname' => 'paul', 'lastname' => 'phoenix');
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use like below

<?php
$a = array('firstname', 'lastname');

$fullname = 'Paul Phoenix';

$b = explode(" ",$fullname);

$c = array_combine($a, $b);

print_r($c);

?>

hope this will sure work for you.

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Good answer and +1 for making it readable ;) –  Sébastien Oct 21 '13 at 12:03
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$fullname = 'Paul Phoenix';

$name = array();
list($name['firstname'], $name['lastname']) = explode(' ', $fullname);

output:

array(2) {
  ["lastname"]=>
  string(7) "Phoenix"
  ["firstname"]=>
  string(4) "Paul"
}

Update:

$array = array('firstname' => 'john', 'lastname' => 'smith');
$fullname = 'Paul Phoenix';

$array2 = array_combine(array_keys($array), explode(' ', $fullname));

output:

array(2) {
  ["lastname"]=>
  string(7) "Phoenix"
  ["firstname"]=>
  string(4) "Paul"
}
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you are hardcoding the keys of the array i need to take it from the 1st array itseld. if there is more keys in the 1st array there should be the exact same keys in the second array –  user2707590 Oct 21 '13 at 11:27
    
See updated answer –  JimL Oct 21 '13 at 11:29
    
great, thanks :) –  user2707590 Oct 21 '13 at 11:47
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Use array_keys() to get the keys from $array, explode $fullname on the space, and then use array_combine() to combine the two:

$array2 = array_combine(array_keys($array), explode(' ', $fullname));
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