How to Add Elements to Array in PHP Easily

How to add elements to array in PHP? There are multiple methods to do that. Also, depends on whether your element(s) to be added contains keys or not, different methods could be used.

There are two quick ways to add new elements to an array in PHP.

Assuming we have the $fruits array and we want to add some fruit elements to it:

Results:

Use the [] bracket with array variable to add new elements into it:

This will produce the same result as the array_push() method.

The above examples will add new elements to array in PHP, but with elements without keys. But how do we add new elements with keys to array?

To add elements with keys to PHP array so it will become an associative array, we can use the above methods as well, but with slight adjustment:

Result:

Again, this will show the same result as the array_push() method.

You can quickly assign your array by declare the elements right into it: