php: how to get associative array key from numeric index?
You don't. Your array doesn't have a key [1]
. You could:
Make a new array, which contains the keys:
$newArray = array_keys($array);echo $newArray[0];
But the value "one" is at
$newArray[0]
, not[1]
.
A shortcut would be:echo current(array_keys($array));
Get the first key of the array:
reset($array); echo key($array);
Get the key corresponding to the value "value":
echo array_search('value', $array);
This all depends on what it is exactly you want to do. The fact is, [1]
doesn't correspond to "one" any which way you turn it.
$array = array( 'one' =>'value', 'two' => 'value2' );$allKeys = array_keys($array);echo $allKeys[0];
Which will output:
one
If you only plan to work with one key in particular, you may accomplish this with a single line without having to store an array for all of the keys:
echo array_keys($array)[$i];