Chapter 8. Working with Arrays
Arrays are used to store and organize data. PHP includes many functions that enable you to create, modify, and manipulate arrays, which you use often throughout the procedural programming method described in this book.
What Are Arrays?
You’ve already learned about and used scalar variables in the earlier chapters in this book, and therefore you know that these variables are used to store values. But scalar variables can store only one value at a time—the $color variable can hold only a value of red or blue, and so forth, but it cannot be used to hold ...
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