WHAT IS => I Cannot find it on the internet!

[freedomflyer]

Hi everyone, I'm having a huge problem...I have no idea what  this is =>

What is => ?

It seems like some assignment operator of some sort...anyway, it would help if I could be told.

Thanks!

[.josh]

I don't think it has an officially official name, but it is indeed an assignment operator for arrays.

 

key => value

$names = array('Firstname' => 'John', 'Lastname' => 'Doe');

 

You can also use it in foreach loops to make use of the keys and values

 

foreach($array as $key => $val) {
   echo "key: $key  val: $val <br />";
}

[effigy]

I've seen it referred to as a "fat arrow" or "fat comma" in the Perl community.

[akitchin]

in some circles, it's also know interchangeably as "that thing with the equal sign and greater-than sign" and "whatever makes that foreach thing go."

[Daniel0]

You could check the PHP source to see what it's called internally.

[tibberous]

That's an ePenis, a short one.

 

I'd show you mine, but this is a public forum.

 

[revraz]

And plus, they don't make keyboard characters that small.

 

That's an ePenis, a short one.

 

I'd show you mine, but this is a public forum.

 

[tibberous]

_c--  <= They do too...

 

[effigy]

That's enough. Locked.