... variable a data type and thenassign a value to it (as in languages such as C++ and Java), PHP automatically assigns a datatype to a variable when a value is allocated to it. This makes PHP rather ... regular arrays, multidimensional arrays, and even thehandy associative array. Unlike the string functions available to PHP, the array functions areactually rather well organized and follow fairly ... 8 /26 /05 9:46 AM Page 24 //Setting up an associative array is similarly easy.$myassocarray = array ("mykey" => 'myvalue', "another" => 'one');//And...