Beginning PHP and MySQL: From Novice to Professional

© Frank M. Kromann 2018

Frank M. KromannBeginning PHP and MySQLhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-6044-8_5

5. Arrays

Frank M. Kromann¹ 

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Aliso Viejo, CA, USA

 

Much of your time as a programmer is spent working with datasets. Some examples of datasets include the names of all employees at a corporation; the U.S. presidents and their corresponding birth dates; and the years between 1900 and 1975. In fact, working with datasets is so prevalent that a means for managing these groups within code is a common feature of all mainstream programming languages. Within the PHP language, this feature is known as an array, and it offers an ideal way to store, manipulate, sort, and retrieve datasets.

This chapter discusses PHP’s array support and the language’s ...