Arrays In PHP

Last updated on November 18th, 2015 at 03:58 am

Arrays in PHP is very simple and if you have a programming background you can easily identify Numeric Arrays and Associative array difference. Here I am showing both with an example.

<?php $employee_names[0] = "Raj";
 $employee_names[1] = "Thomas"; 
$employee_names[2] = "Anil";
  echo "The first employee's name is ".$employee_names[0]; 
echo "<br>"; 
echo "The second employee's name is ".$employee_names[1]; 
echo "<br>"; echo "The third employee's name is ".$employee_names[2]; ?>

In the above example we have added couple of names for employee_names array and call each name according to the position.

Associative Array

<?php	 $employee_names = array("arun" => "Owner", "Jess" => "Manager", "Thomas" => "Peon");
echo "Matt is the ".$employee_names["Jess"]; ?>

In this example we have associated each name to a value and when we cann employee_names[‘Jess’] it shows value as Manager.