Hi there!
Today we will talk about the second type of array, the Associative array.
The Associative array is an array that uses names that you assign them.
You can create an associative array in one of two ways.
The first way is looks like this:
Or you can write the same thing in a bit of a different way:
$weather[‘Winter’] = “Cold”;
$weather[‘Fall’] = “Cool”;
The named keys can then be used in the following example:
$weather = array(“Summer”=>”Hot”, “Winter”=>”Cold”, “Fall”=>”Cool”);
echo “The weather during the summer is ” . $weather[‘Summer’] . ” .”;
?>
The output of this would be – The weather during the summer is hot.
This is an associative array. Now let’s try to loop with it using the foreach loop that we learnt about last lesson!
$weather = array(“Summer”=>”hot”, “Winter”=>”cold”, “Fall”=>”cool”);
foreach($weather as $x => $x_value) {
echo “During the season” . $x . “, the weather is” . $x_value;
echo “<br>”;
}
?>
The outcome of this would be the following:
During the season Summer, the weather is hot.
During the season Winter, the weather is cold.
During the season Fall, the weather is cool.