PHP var_dump array - php

Question

array(14) {
[0]=>
string(1) "1"
["id"]=>
string(1) "1"
[1]=>
string(7) "myUserName"
["UserID"]=>
string(7) "myUserName"
[2]=>
string(10) "myPassword"
["passwordID"]=>
string(10) "myPassword"
[3]=>
string(24) "myEmail#domain.com"
["emailAddress"]=>
string(24) "myEmail#domain.com"
[4]=>
string(7) "myFirstName"
["firstName"]=>
string(7) "myFirstName"
[5]=>
string(8) "myLastName"
["lastName"]=>
string(8) "myLastName"
[6]=>
string(1) "1"
["active"]=>
string(1) "1"
}
how do i access the contents of this array using PHP?
the above was a var_dump($info)

Answer 1

It depends on which part of the array you are trying to access.
If you are trying to access a specific item, you can access it by its index ; for instance :
echo $info['passwordID'];
Should give you :
myPassword
(edit after the comment)
For the email address, there is this portion in your var_dump's output :
["emailAddress"]=>
string(24) "myEmail#domain.com"
This indicates that the e-mail address is stored in the array as an element that has the key "emailAddress".
Which means you should be able to get that e-mail address like this :
echo $info['emailAddress'];
And as you also have this portion of text in the var_dump's output :
(About that duplication of data, you should read Pekka's answer, who provides an idea of why your data is in your array twice, with both integers and strings as keys)
[3]=>
string(24) "myEmail#domain.com"
You could also use :
echo $info[3];
(of course, in each of those cases, you could also store this to a variable for futures re-use)
Another solution, if you want to access each item, would be to use some foreach loop ; for instance :
foreach ($info as $key => value) {
echo "Value for key $key is $value <br />";
}
You might want to go through the arrays section of the PHP manual, for more informations.
And, also, the section about array functions.

Answer 2

You can use either the numeric or the associative key:
echo $array[0]; // outputs 1
echo $array["id"]; // outputs 1
I'm guessing this is the result of a mysql_fetch_array() operation, isn't it? You may want to specify whether you want a numeric or associative array using the second parameter to that function.
Example:
$record = mysql_fetch_array($query, MYSQL_ASSOC); // for associative keys only
$record = mysql_fetch_array($query, MYSQL_NUM); // for numeric keys only

Answer 3

The array appears to have both string and numeric keys. You can access the fields using the array index operator []. Supply either the numeric key or the column name:
echo $info['UserID']; // output "myUserName"
echo $info['emailAddress']; // output "myEmail#domain.com"

Answer 4

if $info is the array, then you can echo $info[6] for example.
If you want it as a string then $s=print_r($info,true);
It seems you are doing some thing wrong, as there shouldn't be a need to access array like that, and there other ways to access objects as arrays.