Making associative array

Question

My goal is to make ant assoc array from the values of for loop.

//$from_time value is 6 and $to_time value is 23

for ($i = $from_time; $i <= $to_time; $i++) {
        $working_time_array[] = $i;
    }
echo json_encode($working_time_array);

The output I get on AJAX success, and when I console.log it, I get result as such :

["6",7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23]

Preferred result is

["6","7","8","9","10"]... etc

John Conde · Accepted Answer · 2014-12-29 17:24:03Z

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The only difference between the two results is one result set contains integers and the other contains strings. If you want those values to be strings just cast them when assigning them to the array:

for ($i = $from_time; $i <= $to_time; $i++) {
    $working_time_array[] = (string) $i;
}

This really shouldn't be necessary unless your client side is expecting strings only.

answered Dec 29, 2014 at 17:24

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WilsonG Over a year ago

Yes that was the problem. I'm new to arrays so I will ask on more question. Now it's good, but is it possible to remove those values that are same in other array. As in this example $working_time_array[] result is ["6","7","8","9"].. My other $array[] result for example is ["6","7"]. How do I remove the values that are in $array from my $working_time_array[]?

Rangad · Accepted Answer · 2014-12-29 17:24:18Z

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You would need to cast $i to a string before pushing it to the array.

for ($i = $from_time; $i <= $to_time; $i++) {
        $working_time_array[] = (string)$i;
}

answered Dec 29, 2014 at 17:24

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donald123 · Accepted Answer · 2014-12-29 17:24:46Z

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why would you convert int to string?

for your goal this should work

for ($i = $from_time; $i <= $to_time; $i++) {
    $working_time_array[] = "$i";
}
echo json_encode($working_time_array);

answered Dec 29, 2014 at 17:24

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