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Muaath Alhaddad
Muaath Alhaddad

Reputation: 361

what is the difference between these two arrays in laravel?

I am new to laravel and sometimes when I follow tutorials I see different forms of assigning the arrays' keys, can anyone explain the difference between them.

first way

$post [
'title' => 'First title',
'body'  => 'First body'
];

Second way

$post [
'title', 'First title',
'body', 'First body'
];

Upvotes: 0

Views: 80

Answers (1)

yoeriboven
yoeriboven

Reputation: 3571

It is not a Laravel thing, but has to do with PHP.

The first way is called an associative array. You should use this if there is a relation between the key before the => and the value after it. You could get the title by writing $post['title'].

The second is an array where there are no relationships between the values. It's just a collection of the same type of thing. You could also write this like this:

0 = 'title',
1 = 'First title',
2 = 'body',
3 = 'First body'

If you had an array called posts, it would be most likely to look like a combination of the two. So a numeric array for all posts and a associative array for each posts.

$posts = [
    [
        'title' => 'First title',
        'body' => 'First body'
    ],
    [
        'title' => 'Second title',
        'body' => 'Second body'
    ],
];

Do some research into (PHP) arrays and you'll figure it out.

Upvotes: 4

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