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PHP PHP Arrays and Control Structures PHP Arrays Associative Quiz

Posted by Gremyko Coleman
Gremyko Coleman
9,756 Points

Bummer! Unfortunately, that answer is incorrect

How is this answer 0, I thought it was May, since the I counted it as the 4th => as the key?

1 Answer

Antonio De Rose
Antonio De Rose
20,884 Points
Antonio De Rose
Antonio De Rose
20,884 Points

Try run this code, if you have setup php locally, and see the output, I have anyway put the output

<?php

$myArray = array("January" => "Winter", "February" => "Winter", "March" => "Spring", "April", "May" => "Spring", "June" => "Summer", "July" => "Summer", "August" => "Summer", "September" => "Fall", "October" => "Fall", "November" => "Fall", "December" => "Winter"); 

echo "<pre>";
print_r($myArray);
echo "</pre>";

//the below would be the output you get, if you run it in a localhost

/*Array
(
    [January] => Winter
    [February] => Winter
    [March] => Spring
    [0] => April
    [May] => Spring
    [June] => Summer
    [July] => Summer
    [August] => Summer
    [September] => Fall
    [October] => Fall
    [November] => Fall
    [December] => Winter
)*/

//just to get more confidence, take 2 more keys out to see, what would be the keys represent
//here am taking the July out, and December out.
//for that the code would be as below

$myArray = array("January" => "Winter", "February" => "Winter", "March" => "Spring", "April", "May" => "Spring", "June" => "Summer", "Summer", "August" => "Summer", "September" => "Fall", "October" => "Fall", "November" => "Fall", "Winter"); 

//for the right above, you get the, below answer.

/*Array
(
    [January] => Winter
    [February] => Winter
    [March] => Spring
    [0] => April
    [May] => Spring
    [June] => Summer
    [1] => Summer
    [August] => Summer
    [September] => Fall
    [October] => Fall
    [November] => Fall
    [2] => Winter
)*/

//what confirms here, when you have an array, with the absence of a key, the first absent one
//will take 0 for key, as arrays are programmed to start from 0, and then blanks will be
//in ascending order.

?>