PHP Associative Array PHP

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:

1. $salary=array("Sonoo"=>"550000","Vimal"=>"250000","Ratan"=>"200000");  

2nd way:

1. $salary["Sonoo"]="550000";  
2. $salary["Vimal"]="250000";  
3. $salary["Ratan"]="200000";  

Example

File: arrayassociative1.php

1. <?php    
2. $salary=array("Sonoo"=>"550000","Vimal"=>"250000","Ratan"=>"200000");  
3. echo "Sonoo salary: ".$salary["Sonoo"]."<br/>";  
4. echo "Vimal salary: ".$salary["Vimal"]."<br/>";  
5. echo "Ratan salary: ".$salary["Ratan"]."<br/>";  
6. ?>    

Output:

File: arrayassociative2.php

1. <?php    
2. $salary["Sonoo"]="550000";  
3. $salary["Vimal"]="250000";  
4. $salary["Ratan"]="200000";   
5. echo "Sonoo salary: ".$salary["Sonoo"]."<br/>";  
6. echo "Vimal salary: ".$salary["Vimal"]."<br/>";  
7. echo "Ratan salary: ".$salary["Ratan"]."<br/>";  
8. ?>    

Output:

Traversing PHP Associative Array

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

1. <?php    
2. $salary=array("Sonoo"=>"550000","Vimal"=>"250000","Ratan"=>"200000");  
3. foreach($salary as $k => $v) {  
4. echo "Key: ".$k." Value: ".$v."<br/>";  
5. }  
6. ?>    

Output: