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Multidimensional Array

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Multidimensional Array

If you can teach Multidimensional Array using $student['roll'], you know it. If you only know the heading, you don’t.

Do Multidimensional Array once by hand. ['name'=>'Asha','roll'=>12]. Change one input. Say the new result out loud.

Without Multidimensional Array, a class list gets messy and $student['roll'] is hard to trust.

Multidimensional Array shows up in a class list. Name $student['roll'], not “a real-world scenario”.

Don’t do this with Multidimensional Array: mixing 0-based and named keys blindly. Interviewers spot it in ten seconds.

After Multidimensional Array, Priya should still remember mixing 0-based and named keys blindly.

Close Multidimensional Array with: “If I skip it, $student['roll'] goes wrong like this: mixing 0-based and named keys blindly.”

Exam tip

For Multidimensional Array: definition + a class list + one failure.

Example

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

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

Short notes

  • DefMultidimensional Array — Priya uses it for $student['roll'] in a class list.
  • RuleMultidimensional Array → ['name'=>'Asha','roll'=>12].
  • RememberMultidimensional Array + the PHP runtime (a class list).
  • UseMultidimensional Array in a class list ($student['roll']).
  • TrapMultidimensional Array — mixing 0-based and named keys blindly.
  • ExMultidimensional Array → $student['roll'].

Questions

1

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

2

When would Priya actually reach for Multidimensional Array?

3

Viva: one wrong answer people give for Multidimensional Array.

4

Write the smallest Multidimensional Array step on $student['roll']. What happens?

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