php - array_splice() for associative arrays

Question

Say I have an associative array:

array(
  "color" => "red",
  "taste" => "sweet",
  "season" => "summer"
);

and I want to introduce a new element into it:

"texture" => "bumpy" 

behind the 2nd item but preserving all the array keys:

array(
  "color" => "red",
  "taste" => "sweet",
  "texture" => "bumpy", 
  "season" => "summer"
);

is there a function to do that? array_splice() won't cut it, it can work with numeric keys only.

Answer 1

I think you need to do that manually:

# Insert at offset 2
$offset = 2;
$newArray = array_slice($oldArray, 0, $offset, true) +
            array('texture' => 'bumpy') +
            array_slice($oldArray, $offset, NULL, true);