Combining Arrays

[GreyBoy]

I want to take two text strings, expload them into arrays. Then, I want to merge them so that the first array is used at the keys and the second is used as the values. I looked up array_combine(), but it only works in PHP5. I need to know if there is a way to do this in PHP4.

Thanks in advance.

[HalfaBee]

You will probably have to do it manually.

reset( $values  );
foreach( $keys as $k ) {
     list( $d , $val ) = each( $value );
    $newArray[$k] = $val;
}

HalfaBee

[crosbystillsnas]

i dont know if there is already a function for that but this should work.
$str1 is your first string, $str2 the second, the strings are exploded by $del... the script dies if $arr1 and $arr2 are not of the same size.

function myArray($str1, $str2, $del){

 $arr1 = explode($del, $str1);
 $arr2 = explode($del, $str2);

 if(count($arr1) != count($arr2)) die("Arrays are not of same size.");

 for($i=0; $i<count($arr1); $i++){
 $myArr[$arr1[$i]] = $arr2[$i];
 }

 return $myArr;

}

for example:

$string1 = "111@222@333@444@555";
$string2 = "aaa@bbb@ccc@ddd@eee";

$result = myArray($string1, $string2, "@");

print($result['111']);
print($result['222']);
print($result['333']);
print($result['444']);
print($result['555']);

[GreyBoy]

Thanks guys!!!

I went ahead an used Halfabee's approach, but I appreciate t both you guy's help.