syntax error, unexpected T_DOUBLE_ARROW

Question

how can i rid of this error

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_DOUBLE_ARROW

PHP code:

$uniqueOrderCodes = array();
foreach ($checks as $check)
{
    array_push($uniqueOrderCodes,"string" => $check);
}

thanx alot

Don't use `array_push()`. just set the key: `$uniqueOrderCodes['string'] = $check;` — Michael Berkowski, Dec 23 '12 at 19:53
Can you look at related questions, search in Google or anything? It's parse error... — pamil, Dec 23 '12 at 19:53
But since this is in a loop, you're overwriting `string` on every iteration! Please let us know what you _are trying to acheive_. — Michael Berkowski, Dec 23 '12 at 19:53
i want to achive this "uniqueOrderCodes" => array("string" => "66/2121-1003-36614","string" => "66/2121-1003-36614") — Mohammad Masoudian, Dec 23 '12 at 19:55
@MohammadMasoudian That is not valid. You cannot use the same key `string` multiple times in the array. Do you mean that you want it to be a string type? To get what you want, you just need to append to the array and it will be numerically indexed. `$uniqueOrderCodes[] = $check;` — Michael Berkowski, Dec 23 '12 at 19:55
@MohammadMasoudian PHP cannot produce an array like that. It will overwrite the `string` key. What web service is this? — Michael Berkowski, Dec 23 '12 at 19:58
it didnt worked see this : [link](http://websvc.highsell.ir/cart.asmx?op=ChangeBatchOrderStatus) — Mohammad Masoudian, Dec 23 '12 at 19:59
@MohammadMasoudian You cannot construct that XML from a PHP array. If you are using SoapClient or something, post more of your code. There are many ways to build XML with PHP. — Michael Berkowski, Dec 23 '12 at 20:16
this works $ChangeBatchOrderStatusResult=$proxy->ChangeBatchOrderStatus (array("authenticationID" => $signIn['SignInResult'], "uniqueOrderCodes" => $array("string" => "66/2121-1003-11111","string" => "66/2121-1003-22222"), "newStatuses" => array("int" => "2","int" => "2"))); — Mohammad Masoudian, Dec 23 '12 at 20:21

Alexandru Guzinschi · Accepted Answer · 2012-12-23T21:42:07.723

No offense intended, but you should read the manual. => it is an assignment operator and is used in arrays.

In the example $my_array = array('color' => 'blue'), color is the key, blue is the value (of type string) and $my_array is the variable holding the array. In a nerdy language, that could sound like "Variable $my_array is holding an array in which I assigned a string blue to key color ; I can access that by using $my_array['color'] which will output blue."

You push to arrays like this:

array_push($my_array, $var);

$var it can be of a mixed (mixed = any) type like string, int, array, etc.

However, for just one element, you do not need to push in array. Alternative:

foreach ($checks as $check)
{
    $uniqueOrderCodes[] = $check;
}

See:

syntax error, unexpected T_DOUBLE_ARROW

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