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Indexed Array

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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.”

Exam tip

Board: $student['roll']. Dry-run Indexed Array. Name the trap: mixing 0-based and named keys blindly.

Example

<?php
$langs = ["PHP", "JS", "SQL"];
$langs[] = "Python";
foreach ($langs as $i => $lang) {
  echo "$i: $lang\n";
}

Indexed Array — pHP arrays are ordered maps. foreach walks key and value.

Short notes

  • DefIndexed Array — Priya uses it for $student['roll'] in a class list.
  • RuleIndexed Array → ['name'=>'Asha','roll'=>12].
  • RememberIndexed Array + the PHP runtime (a class list).
  • UseIndexed Array in a class list ($student['roll']).
  • TrapIndexed Array — mixing 0-based and named keys blindly.
  • ExIndexed Array → $student['roll'].

Questions

1

Priya asks: why does Indexed Array exist? Use $student['roll'].

2

When would Priya actually reach for Indexed Array?

3

What trap does Priya hit with Indexed Array?

4

Dry-run ['name'=>'Asha','roll'=>12] and say the result.

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