Question

In pascal and delphi I am able to set up a custom type such as

myrecord = type
name : string;
number: integer;
end;

The advantage of this I can then do an array of that type so I can run code like records[i].name = … ECT. Can I do this in PHP?

Answer 1

You cannot create custom type, but you can use objects to hold information about your records. You can push objects into array afterwards and do exactly what you described.

class MyRecord {
    public $name;
    public $number;
}

$record1 = new MyRecord();
$record1->name = "foo";
...

$records = array($record1, ...);

foreach ($records as $record) {
    echo $record->name;
}