PHP: Output An Associative Array

In this article I’ll show you, how to output each element of an an assciative array in PHP. First of all, we need an associative array. In this example I’ll use an array with colors as the key and the corresponding HEX-code of this color as the value.

Let’s start! Here is the associative PHP array:

// Our associative array
$arrMembers = array(
	'Red'=>'ff0000',
	'Green'=>'00ff00',
	'Blue'=>'0000ff',
	'Yellow'=>'ffff00'
);

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PHP: Get A Random Item From An Array

In PHP it’s easy to work with arrays. Just declare someting like this:

<?php
$arrX = array("Kay", "Joe","Susan", "Frank");
?>

Now you can access the values with their index (which starts a 0 for the first item).

<?php
// output "Kay"
echo $arrX[0];
 
// output "Susan"
echo $arrX[2];
?>

PHP offers you several ways to get a random value of the array. One simple way is by using the array_rand() function. array_rand() expects the array as a parameter and returns a random index value as integer which then can be used to get the array value.

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How to insert special characters like &, < and > into a JSF component

If you want to insert a character like & e.g. within a JSF (Java Server Faces) component’s value attribute, you might get an error. To avoid this you must insert a HTML-Entity for the character. Here is a short list for common characters which you might need to replace in your JSF component. Character Entity … Read more