PHP Arrays

[Salchester]

In PHP, is there anyway of using variables to store each piece of information (Name,Species,Sex) inside an array. Then, when it comes to fetching the information, the array position (e.g. 0) is called along with the information type (Name etc).

 

A bit like the following:

 

record(1).name

 

The information is coming from the record array, at position 1 displaying names.

 

Many Thanks,

[emehrkay]

they are called associtative arrays

 

$x = array('name' => 'Salchester', 'posts' => 1, 'status' => 'n00bie');

 

echo $x['name']; //echos Salchester

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