How to add an ARRAY to an associative array as key value pair

Question

This is my associative array.

 $family = array("Mike"=>array("Ben","klatty","Paul"),"Johnson"=>array("Shena", "Glenn"));

 $family['shrinidhi']=array("akshata","pandu");

this works fine.

I would like to push an array into $family dynamically. i.e

$family['$contact["values"][$i]["contact_id"]']= array($phone_nums[$i]['values'][$j]['phone'],$phone_nums[$i]['values'][$j]['phone_type_id']));

Thank you in advance

Answer 1

no need (') quote when you are using variable value in index

change

$family['$contact["values"][$i]["contact_id"]']

to

$family[$contact["values"][$i]["contact_id"]]