Get an EXACT value in $_POST array - php

Question

I'm studying php and I'm trying to figure out how to get the string "Juve_Milan" from this var_dump($_POST) :
array(5) {
["Juve_Milan"] => array(2) {
[0] => string(1)
"5" [1] => string(1)
"1"
}["Inter_Roma"] => array(2) {
[0] => string(1)
"4" [1] => string(1)
"4"
}["Napoli_Lazio"] => array(2) {
[0] => string(1)
"2" [1] => string(1)
"5"
}["name"] => string(0)
"" ["submit"] => string(5)
"Invia"
}
I could get all of them with:
foreach ($_POST as $param_name => $param_val) {
echo "<tr><td>".$param_name."</td><td>".$param_val[0]."-".$param_val[1]."</td></tr>";
}
But i want to get them exactly one by one, for example, if i want to get the string "Juve_Milan" or "inter_Roma" how can i do?
Without looping, how can i get the string value: "Juve_milan" or "Inter_Roma"? Becouse with the loop i can access them this way : $_POST as $param_name => $param_val
But i want to get them without loop, my first attempt was something like $_POST[0][0] but its wrong...

Answer 1

There are numbers of php array functions you can use.
You can use
array shift
to remove an element from an array and display it .e.g
$club = ['juve_millan', 'inter_roma', 'napoli_lazio'];
$juve = array_shift($club);
echo $juve;// 'juve_millan'
but note that the array is shortened by one element i.e. 'juve_millan' is no more in the array and also note that using
array_shift
over larger array is fairly slow
Array Slice function
PHP
array_slice()
function is used to extract a slice of an array e.g
$club = ['juve_millan', 'inter_roma', 'napoli_lazio'];
if I want to display
inter_roma
or assigned it to a variable, then I can do this
$roma = array_slice($club, 1, 1);// The first parameter is the array to slice, the second parameter is where to begin(which is one since most programming language array index start from 0 meaning juve_millan is zero, while inter_roma is 1, napoli_lazio is 2) and the length is 1 since i want to return a single element.
I hope you understand

Answer 2

You could iterate over keys of the main array like this:
foreach($_POST as $param_name => $param_val) {
echo "<tr><td>".$param_name."</td></tr>";
}
This will return each Juve_Milan, Inter_Roma etc. one by one. Although it's part of the code you already have, I believe this will return values you want only.