Indexed Array
If you can teach Indexed Array using $student['roll'], you know it. If you only know the heading, you don’t.
Indexed Array on the board — ['name'=>'Asha','roll'=>12]. Then say what $student['roll'] looks like after.
Without Indexed Array, a class list gets messy and $student['roll'] is hard to trust.
Use Indexed Array when $student['roll'] must stay clear. If a simpler PHP step works, use that instead.
Don’t do this with Indexed Array — mixing 0-based and named keys blindly. Interviewers spot it in ten seconds.
After Indexed Array, Priya should still remember mixing 0-based and named keys blindly.
Close Indexed Array with — “If I skip it, $student['roll'] goes wrong like this: mixing 0-based and named keys blindly.”
Board: $student['roll']. Dry-run Indexed Array. Name the trap: mixing 0-based and named keys blindly.