Syntax
$user = ["name" => "Ada", "active" => true];
echo $user["name"];Examples
PHP associative arrays example
A focused example you can adapt while practising.
$user = ["name" => "Ada", "active" => true];
echo $user["name"];Best practices
- Start with the smallest working example, then adapt it to your project.
- Use the language’s standard library and idioms before introducing extra dependencies.
At a glance
- Purpose
- Server-side web applications
- File extension
- .php
- Runs in
- PHP runtime on a server or CLI
- Usually used with
- HTML, databases and web servers