Specifying an Array Not Beginning at Element 0

You want to assign multiple elements to an array in one step, but you don't want the first index to be 0.

Instruct array() to use a different index using the => syntax:

$fruits = array(1=>'Apples', 'Grapes', 'Bananas', 'Oranges');

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="EN" lang="EN">
<head>
<title>PHP</title>
<meta Name="Author" Content="Hann So">
</head>
<body>
<p>
<?php
$fruits = array(1=>'Apples', 'Grapes', 'Bananas', 'Oranges');
// use foreach to loop through the array
echo "<p><b>Start the index at 1 for the array.</b></p>";
foreach ($fruits as $key => $value) {
	echo "$key:  $value<br />";
}
// Use negative number
$fruits2 = array(-1=>'Apples', 'Grapes', 'Bananas', 'Oranges');
echo "<p><b>Use negative number.</b></p>";
foreach ($fruits2 as $key => $value) {
	echo "$key:  $value<br />";
}
// Use multiple =>
$fruits3 = array(1=>'Apples', 'Grapes', 10=>'Bananas', 'Oranges');
echo "<p><b>Use multiple =>.</b></p>";
foreach ($fruits3 as $key => $value) {
	echo "$key:  $value<br />";
}
// Mix numeric and string keys
$fruits4 = array(1=>'Apples', 'Grapes', 'yellow'=>'Bananas', 'Oranges');
echo "<p><b>Mix numeric and string keys</b></p>";
foreach ($fruits4 as $key => $value) {
	echo "$key:  $value<br />";
}
?>
</p>
</body>
</html>

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Arrays | What is an array? | Creating Arrays | Iterating | Not Beginning at 0 | Initializing to a Range | Modifying | Removing Elements | Removing Duplicate | Changing Size | Key in an Array | Element in an Array | Position of a Value | Largest or Smallest Element | Reversing | Randomizing
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email: hso@voyager.deanza.edu