Hi everyone, I am a newbie to PHP. I have a question I hope somebody here will answer. I am a bit confused about array declarations, I would like to know if the following two code lines are equivalent:

$my_array=array('a','b');

$my_array[0]='a';
$my_array[1]='b';

If they are not the same thing, could anybody write an example of how to set an array and initialize it with string values, without using the array() function ? Thank you all in advance and sorry if this question is a bit trivial, but as I said before I am just a newbie with PHP.

The two methods of initializing arrays are identical. Using the array() function lets you initialize all your values in one statement. The end result is the same.

You can also initialize string indexes using either method:

$my_array = array('index_1' => 'a', 'another index' => 'b');

$my_array['some index'] = "yet another value";




Take care,

Nik
http://www.bigaction.org/

Thank you for your reply Nikolai. I would like to ask you one more question on the same topic.

Given:
$my_array=array();

How can I do the same thing not using array() function ?

$my_array[0] = ' ';
unset($my_array[0]);

I guess this will do it.

It will, but it's a waste of effort... why the aversion to using array()?


Take care,

Nik
http://www.bigaction.org/

Nothing in particular, I was just wondering if there was another way to declare an empty array, but I will keep using array()