note 62225 deleted from function.is-array by tularis

Note Submitter: mot4h at cs dot virginia dot edu ---- I was looking at several of the other examples for testing if an array is associative and they seemed a little limited, or a little bulky. Here's my take on it, I think it's a nice balance: <?php function is_associative($array){ if (!is_array($array)) return false; foreach(array_keys($array) as $key=>$value) { if ($key != $value) return true; } return false; } ?> The idea being that the array_keys() function returns a non-associative array, so if the array you fed it wasn't associative, all the key/value pairs in the array of keys should be identical. Otherwise it must have been associative.