What is array in php | PHP Tutorial for Beginners to Advance Full Course | part 14

What is array in PHP | PHP Tutorial for Beginners to Advance Full Course | part 14

What is Array :

array is a data structure that stores one or more similar type of values in a single value.

Example

if you want to store 50 numbers then instead of defining 50 variables its easy to define an array of 50 length

$a = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,..........50]

Types Of Array in PHP

1.Numeric array

Syntex :

$variable_name = array(value1,value2,value3.......,value n);

Example 1 :

$a = array(1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8);

Example 2 :

$b = array(a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h);

2.Associative array

Syntex :

$variable_name = array('key'=>'value','key'=>'value');

Example :

$user_info = array(

'name'=>'your_name',

'email'=>'your_email',

'age'=>'your_age',

);

3. Multidimensional array

Syntex :

$variable_name = array(

'key'=>array('key'=>'value','key'=>'value'),

);

Example :

$marks = array(

'a' =>array('hindi'=>'60','english'=>'40'),

'b' =>array('hindi'=>'60','english'=>'40'),

);