{"id":634,"date":"2023-07-04T10:37:16","date_gmt":"2023-07-04T10:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devopsconsulting.in\/blog\/?p=634"},"modified":"2023-07-31T10:37:44","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T10:37:44","slug":"get-first-element-of-array","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devopsconsulting.in\/blog\/get-first-element-of-array\/","title":{"rendered":"Get First Element of Array"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This example will teach you how to retrieve the first element of an array in PHP. I simply walked you through the process of getting the first element of an array in PHP. I simply provided an example of how to use php to fetch the first key of an array. I would like to demonstrate how to retrieve the first key value from an array in PHP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To retrieve the first element of an array in PHP, we will utilize the array_shift() and array_values() functions. So let us look at the short code for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Eaxmple<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>&lt;?php\r\n  \r\n   $myArray = &#91;\"One\", \"Two\", \"Three\", \"Four\"];\r\n      \r\n   $firstElem = array_shift(array_values($myArray));   \r\n     \r\n   var_dump($firstElem);\r\n     \r\n?><\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>OutPut:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>string(3) \"One\"<\/code><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This example will teach you how to retrieve the first element of an array in PHP. 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