PHP Associative Array

PHP allows you to associate name/label with each array elements in PHP using => symbol. Such way, you can easily remember the element because each element is represented by label than an incremented number.

Definition

There are two ways to define associative array:

1st way:

2nd way:

Example

Output:

Sonoo salary: 550000
Vimal salary: 250000
Ratan salary: 200000

Output:

Sonoo salary: 550000
Vimal salary: 250000
Ratan salary: 200000

Traversing PHP Associative Array

By the help of PHP for each loop, we can easily traverse the elements of PHP associative array.

Output:

Key: Sonoo Value: 550000
Key: Vimal Value: 250000
Key: Ratan Value: 200000