PHP

Working with Arrays

There are two types of arrays. The names they are given differ sometimes, but usually arrays are distinguished between numerical arrays and associative arrays. The first type of array uses numerical keys, whereas the latter type can also use strings as keys.

When simple variables are just not good enough, arrays come into play (or objects, but that's another topic). The array section in the PHP manual, available at http://php.net/array, lists approximately 80 functions that are helpful.

Therefore, this tutorial could be filled with array-related code alone. However, not all of these functions are really used often. Therefore, this tutorial presents the most important problems you'll have to solve when working with arrays and, of course, solutions for these problems.