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3 years ago
A general solution for the problem of wanting to know the keys in the callback, and/or retain the key association in the returned array:

<?php

/**
 * Like array_map() but callback also gets passed the current key as the
 * first argument like so:
 * function($key, $val, ...$vals) { ... }
 * ...and returned array always maintains key association, even if multiple
 * array arguments are passed.
 */

function array_map_assoc(callable $callback, array $array, array ...$arrays) {
    $keys = array_keys($array);
    array_unshift($arrays, $keys, $array);
    return array_combine($keys, array_map($callback, ...$arrays));
}

?>

Because it uses array_map() directly, it behaves the same way in regard to ignoring the keys of subsequent array arguments. It also has the same variadic signature.
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