The World Of Gavin » associative arrays http://www.gavinwillingham.com My opinions on things I have opinions on Fri, 28 Jan 2011 17:08:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 PHP http://www.gavinwillingham.com/php.html http://www.gavinwillingham.com/php.html#comments Sun, 01 Nov 2009 12:25:37 +0000 gavin http://www.gavinwillingham.com/?p=258 Arrays

To get the first element of an array (useful for associative arrays):

$array = array( 'key1' => 'value1', 'key2' => 'value2');
$firstElement = reset($array);

To get the first key of an array:

$array = array( 'key1' => 'value1', 'key2' => 'value2');
$firstKey = key(reset($array));
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