--- title: "PHP Array – How to Use Arrays in Your PHP Projects" url: https://daily.dev/posts/php-array-how-to-use-arrays-in-your-php-projects-36uaexegm source_url: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-use-arrays-in-php/ type: article source: "freeCodeCamp" published: 2022-06-22T21:10:32.737Z updated: 2022-06-22T21:10:32.682Z tags: ["general-programming", "php"] reading_time: 4 upvotes: 11 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # PHP Array – How to Use Arrays in Your PHP Projects **[freeCodeCamp](https://daily.dev/sources/freecodecamp)** · 4 min read · 11 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary An array is a special variable that we use to store or hold more than one value in a single variable. By default, an array of any variable starts with the 0 index, so whenever you want to call the first value of an array you start with 0 then the next is 1 ...and so on. There are different types of arrays in PHP: Numerical/Indexed Arrays, Associative Arrays and Multidimensional Arrays. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#general-programming](https://daily.dev/tags/general-programming), [#php](https://daily.dev/tags/php) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/php-array-how-to-use-arrays-in-your-php-projects-36uaexegm)