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I have an associative array which when var dumped looks like this:

Array ( [tumblr] => Array ( [type] => tumblr [url] => http://tumblr.com/ ) [twitter] => Array ( [type] => twitter [url] => https://twitter.com/ ) )

As you can see the key's are custom "tumblr" and "twitter" and not numeric 0 and 1.

Some times I need to get the values by the custom keys and sometimes I need to get values by numeric keys.

Is there anyy way I can get $myarray[0] to output:

( [type] => tumblr [url] => http://tumblr.com/ )
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  • Numeric and string keys are not interchangeable in PHP. Can you describe more what you need? Commented Jun 27, 2012 at 20:32
  • All arrays in PHP are associative, even the numerically indexed ones. This means that if you assign a string as the index, there is no associated numerical value. @nickb has a nice way to deal with this below. Commented Jun 27, 2012 at 20:34
  • @Michael don't even ask, working with someone else's code and don't feel like rewriting the whole thing. Commented Jun 27, 2012 at 20:37

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You can run the array through array_values():

$myarray = array_values( $myarray);

Now your array looks like:

array(2) { [0]=> array(2) { ["type"]=> string(6) "tumblr" ["url"]=> string(18) "http://tumblr.com/" } ...

This is because array_values() will only grab the values from the array and reset / reorder / rekey the array as a numeric array.

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$myarray+=array_values($myarray); would create an array that could use both named and numeric indexes, much the same way mysql_fetch_array works :)
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You can use array_values to get a copy of the array with numeric indexes.

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