Arrays

Single Dimension Arrays

PHP supports both scalar and associative arrays. In fact, there is no difference between the two. You can create an array using the list() or array() functions, or you can explicitly set each array element value.

 
$a[0] = "abc"; 
$a[1] = "def"; 
$b["foo"] = 13;
      

You can also create an array by simply adding values to the array. When you assign a value to an array variable using empty brackets, the value will be added onto the end of the array.

 
$a[] = "hello"; // $a[2] == "hello"
$a[] = "world"; // $a[3] == "world" 
      

Arrays may be sorted using the asort(), arsort(), ksort(), rsort(), sort(), uasort(), usort(), and uksort() functions depending on the type of sort you want.

You can count the number of items in an array using the count() function.

You can traverse an array using next() and prev() functions. Another common way to traverse an array is to use the each() function.

Multi-Dimensional Arrays

Multi-dimensional arrays are actually pretty simple. For each dimension of the array, you add another [key] value to the end: