Can't push all array items into a second array PHP - php

Question

So I have an array ($items) which has about 900 items in it. What I'm trying to do is, for the items that are read ($key["status"] == 1) which is about 300 items -> push those into a second array ($lifeSpanArray) with two attributes (added_date and read_date).
For some reason, when I try to push items into the lifespan array, I only have one item. Like I said, there are around 300 items that are status read - and I can dump those out, so I believe I am making a mistake with building my lifeSpanArray and pushing into it.
Any help much appreciated!
$items = $pocket->retrieve($params, $accessToken);
$numberArticles = count($items["list"]);
$hasRead = 0;
$hasNotRead = 0;
$readDatesArray = array();
$lifeSpanArray = array();
foreach ($items['list'] as $key) {
if ($key["status"] == 1) {
$hasRead++;
$timeAdded = date('m/d/Y', $key["time_added"]);
$dateRead = date('m/d/Y', $key["time_read"]);
// Where the problem is - only one item added
$lifeSpanArray['timeAdded'] = $timeAdded;
$lifeSpanArray['timeRead'] = $dateRead;
//Push into the read dates array
array_push($readDatesArray, $dateRead);
}
else {
$hasNotRead++;
}
}
var_dump($lifeSpanArray);

Answer 1

As you are overwriting your $lifeSpanArray array on each iteration you're must be getting only last entry so what you need is a two-dimension array,
Change this,
//Push into lifespan array
$lifeSpanArray['timeAdded'] = $timeAdded;
$lifeSpanArray['timeRead'] = $dateRead;
to,
$lifeSpanArray[] = array('timeAdded' => $timeAdded,'timeRead' => $dateRead);

Answer 2

$lifeSpanArray['timeAdded'] = $timeAdded;
$lifeSpanArray['timeRead'] = $dateRead;
For the above code, you are actually assigning a scalar value to $lifeSpanArray['timeAdded'] and $lifeSpanArray['timeRead'].
To treat them as array and push values to them, you should first initialize timeAdded and timeRead as arrays first:
$lifeSpanArray = array(
'timeAdded' => array(),
'timeRead' => array()
);
And pushing values to them within the foreach loop:
$lifeSpanArray['timeAdded'][] = $timeAdded;
$lifeSpanArray['timeRead'][] = $dateRead;