Help With Arrays, Please?

Hello.

I have this function:

foreach($cast as $member){
	$member=explode("...",$member,2); // so member now contains $member[0] and $member[1];
	// for example, right now $member[0] contains actor name like Arnold Scwarzeneger and $member[1] contains the name of the characters he player (e.g. The Terminator)
}

PHP:

Note: In case it makes a difference, the $cast variable originally looks like this:

array(
"Arnold Scharzeneger...The Terminator",
"Daniel Radcliffe...Harry Potter",
// etc etc...
);

PHP:

How do I insert the values of $member[0] and $member[1] to a new array so in the end it I have an array that looks like this:

array(
"Arnold Schwarzeneger"->"The Terminator",
"Daniel Radcliffe"->"Harry Potter",
// etc, etc...
);

PHP:

Essentially, I want to start with a string that is in this format: "Name...Character (double space here) Name...Character (double space here) Name...Character" and end with an array with Name as array key, and Character as array value. To do this I first explode() using the double space as a separator, then for each "exploded" item I explode() again, but using "..." as a separator. But I don't know where to go from here.

Regards!
Rep will be given.

 

$array = array();
foreach($cast as $member){
    $member=explode("...",$member,2); // so member now contains $member[0] and $member[1];
    $array[$member[0]] = $member[1];
}
print_r($array);

PHP:

 

the print_r($array); is just for you to see the array afterwards, since it prints it out in the format you asked for...

 

Or you could so something like this

$array = array();
foreach($cast as $member){
    $member=explode("...",$member,2); // so member now contains $member[0] and $member[1];
    $array[] = array('actor'=>$member[0], 'movie' => $member[1]);
}
print_r($array);

PHP:

which would give you something like

array(
 [0] -> array('actor'->"Arnold Schwarzeneger",
                    'movie'->"The Terminator")
 [1] -> array('actor'->"Arnold Schwarzeneger",
                    'movie'->"Total Recall")
 [3] -> array('actor->'"Daniel Radcliffe",
                   'movie'->"Harry Potter")
// etc, etc...
);

PHP:

Which would allow for actors to be in more than one movie.

You could get the records as such:

foreach($array as $record){
    echo $record['actor'] ." stars in ". $record['movie'] . "<br/>";
}

PHP: