I have an array where I store key-value pair only when the value is not null. I'd like to know how to retrieve keys in the array?
<?php
$pArray = Array();
if(!is_null($params['Name']))
$pArray["Name"] = $params['Name'];
if(!is_null($params['Age']))
$pArray["Age"] = $params['Age'];
if(!is_null($params['Salary']))
$pArray["Salary"] = $params['Salary'];
if(count($pArray) > 0)
{
//Loop through the array and get the key on by one ...
}
?>
Thanks for helping
PHP's foreach loop has operators that allow you to loop over Key/Value pairs. Very handy:
foreach ($pArray as $key => $value)
{
print $key
}
//if you wanted to just pick the first key i would do this:
foreach ($pArray as $key => $value)
{
print $key;
break;
}
An alternative to this approach is to call reset()
and then key()
:
reset($pArray);
$first_key = key($pArray);
It's essentially the same as what is happening in the foreach()
, but according to this answer there is a little less overhead.
Why not just do:
foreach($pArray as $k=>$v){
echo $k . ' - ' . $v . '<br>';
}
And you will be able to see the keys and their values at that point
array_keys function will return all the keys of an array.
To obtain the array keys:
$keys = array_keys($pArray);
To obtain the 1st key:
$key = $keys[0];
Reference : array_keys()