Working with arrays

[mahoho]

Hello!
I have some troubles when working with arrays.
When load pure array like this one:
'months' => ['Январь', 'Февраль', 'Март', 'Апрель', 'Май', 'Июнь', 'Июль', 'Август', 'Сентябрь', 'Октябрь', 'Ноябрь', 'Декабрь'],
do some translations and then publish here is what i get:
'months' => [ '0' => 'Январь', '1' => 'Февраль', '10'=> 'Ноябрь', '11'=> 'Декабрь', '2' => 'Март', '3' => 'Апрель', '4' => 'Май', '5' => 'Июнь', '6' => 'Июль', '7' => 'Август', '8' => 'Сентябрь', '9' => 'Октябрь', ]
It literally rewrites all keys and makes it completely unusable, because further this array is converted to JS object, instead of array. Is there a way to avoid it and preserve array as is?
Thank you!

[vsch]

@mahoho, in PHP arrays and associative arrays are equivalent for numeric keys. At least when keys are start at 0 and numerically increasing by 1.

$i = [ 'a', 'b', 'c' ];
$j = [ '0' => 'a', '1' => 'b', '2' => 'c' ];
var_dump($i);
var_dump($j);

results in output:

php > var_dump($i);
php shell code:1:
array(3) {
  [0] =>
  string(1) "a"
  [1] =>
  string(1) "b"
  [2] =>
  string(1) "c"
}
php > var_dump($j);
php shell code:1:
array(3) {
  [0] =>
  string(1) "a"
  [1] =>
  string(1) "b"
  [2] =>
  string(1) "c"
}

which shows that the two declarations are equivalent. However, I noticed that the keys in the translations are not created in numeric order which causes the two arrays to differ:

$i = [ 'a', 'b', 'c' ];
$j = [ '0' => 'a', '2' => 'c', '1' => 'b' ];
var_dump($i);
var_dump($j);

results in output:

php > var_dump($i);
php shell code:1:
array(3) {
  [0] =>
  string(1) "a"
  [1] =>
  string(1) "b"
  [2] =>
  string(1) "c"
}
php > var_dump($j);
php shell code:1:
array(3) {
  [0] =>
  string(1) "a"
  [2] =>
  string(1) "c"
  [1] =>
  string(1) "b"
}

So the solution would require creating arrays with numerical keys sorted numerically and not alphabetically. This will ensure that if the keys are numeric and increasing by 1 then the created array will be equivalent to an array instead of associative array.

I will make a fix for this in the next release.