how to fill array with array?

[solidcodes]

hi brothers

Let say i have array names

$names['john'];
$names['joey'];
$names['joe'];
$names['joel'];
$names['joseph'];


I want to fill these array names above with fruit names,
$fruit['banana'];
$fruit['apple'];
$fruit['grape'];
$fruit['guava'];
$fruit['strawberry'];


so for example,
$names['john'] = $fruit['banana'];
$names['john'] = $fruit['apple'];
$names['john'] = $fruit['grape'];
$names['john'] = $fruit['guava'];
$names['john'] = $fruit['strawberry'];

$names['joey'] = $fruit['banana'];
$names['joey'] = $fruit['apple'];
$names['joey'] = $fruit['grape'];
$names['joey'] = $fruit['guava'];
$names['joey'] = $fruit['strawberry'];

and soon...

but i want this to be automatic using loops (for or foreach).

Can you show me please...

Thank you...

[imaginethis]

hi brothers

Let say i have array names

$names['john'];
$names['joey'];
$names['joe'];
$names['joel'];
$names['joseph'];


I want to fill these array names above with fruit names,
$fruit['banana'];
$fruit['apple'];
$fruit['grape'];
$fruit['guava'];
$fruit['strawberry'];


so for example,
$names['john'] = $fruit['banana'];
$names['john'] = $fruit['apple'];
$names['john'] = $fruit['grape'];
$names['john'] = $fruit['guava'];
$names['john'] = $fruit['strawberry'];

$names['joey'] = $fruit['banana'];
$names['joey'] = $fruit['apple'];
$names['joey'] = $fruit['grape'];
$names['joey'] = $fruit['guava'];
$names['joey'] = $fruit['strawberry'];

and soon...

but i want this to be automatic using loops (for or foreach).

Can you show me please...

Thank you...

array_fill_keys perhaps? There are a great deal of functions for array. Just check the documentation on arrays.

[buldozerce]

You don't have values.
adding array
$names['john']=array('bannana' =>'yess');
$names['jst']=array('bannana' =>'no');

[logic_earth]

$names['john'] = array_merge( $names['john'], $fruit ); 

[Stormrider]

or:

//$fruit & $names arrays already defined

foreach ($names as $key => $value) {
 $names[$key] = $fruit;
}//foreach 

The example you pasted in your original post won't work - it will replace $names['john'] with the value of $fruit['banana'], then overwrite that with the value of $fruit['apple'], etc