Question

In PHP I create an array of key value pairs like this, how to I get “mykey”?

$arr = array("mykey"=>"myvalue");

I know the code below will work, but I am interested to know if there is a language construct in PHP that allows me to this in a easier fashion.

foreach($arr as $key=>$value){
  $result = $key;
  break;
}
echo $result;

Answer 1

Just Use key if you dealing with one element and array_keys with arrays with multiple values.

Example

$arr = array("mykey"=>"myvalue");
var_dump(key($arr));

Or

 var_dump(array_keys($arr));

Output

string 'mykey' (length=5)

and

array
  0 => string 'mykey' (length=5)