PHP Arrays
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The following is an example of how arrays can be defined in PHP:

$lastName = array();
$lastName["Chris"] = "West";
$lastName["Jamie"] = "Goshen";
$lastName["Tonya"] = "Franz";
$lastName["Larry"] = "Patrick";
$lastName["Barbera"] = "Stevens";
$lastName["Xavier"] = "Reynolds";

$fullName = array();
$fullName2 = array();
foreach($lastName as $first => $last)
{
	$fullName[] = "$first $last";
	$fullName2[] = "$last, $first";
}

echo "<p>\$fullName = ";
var_dump($fullName);
echo "<p>\$fullName2 = ";
var_dump($fullName2);

$first = "Larry";
$last = "Patrick";
echo "<p>$first $last</p>";
list($last, $first) = array($first, $last);
echo "<p>$first $last</p>";

The above code produced the following results:

$fullName = array(6) { [0]=> string(10) "Chris West" [1]=> string(12) "Jamie Goshen" [2]=> string(11) "Tonya Franz" [3]=> string(13) "Larry Patrick" [4]=> string(15) "Barbera Stevens" [5]=> string(15) "Xavier Reynolds" }

$fullName2 = array(6) { [0]=> string(11) "West, Chris" [1]=> string(13) "Goshen, Jamie" [2]=> string(12) "Franz, Tonya" [3]=> string(14) "Patrick, Larry" [4]=> string(16) "Stevens, Barbera" [5]=> string(16) "Reynolds, Xavier" }

Larry Patrick

Patrick Larry