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Reputation: 616

How to make associative array in Yii2?

I would like to make associative array using foreach to use in Yii 2 dropdownlist. My goal is to make array like following using foreach-

$array= [
  ['id' => '123', 'name' => 'abc'],
  ['id' => '124', 'name' => 'def'],
];

And then I want to use them using Yii 2 ArrayHelper::map().

$result = ArrayHelper::map($array, 'id', 'name');

How do I make the array using foreach?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 15334

Answers (1)

arogachev
arogachev

Reputation: 33538

Yii way to build items for drop-down list is exactly as you described, using ArrayHelper::map():

$items = ArrayHelper::map($array, 'id', 'name');

You don't need to use foreach here, just pass results of ActiveQuery as array:

$array = YourModel::find()->all();

Update:

Thanks. But here, I am actually calculating custom value for 'name' and for that reason I want to use foreach to generate the array after the calculation

You definetely need to add this information to the question, but anyway, you can use the ArrayHelper for that too. Take a look at toArray method. It can be used for both object / array of objects. After processing with this method you can use map.

Official docs:

Upvotes: 2

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