I would like to know how to make a function return an associative array. I am getting only values of the returned array but not keys

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you need to set those keys yourself like. If not it adds automatically an index starting from 0. Have a look at my example

function myfunc(){ $arr = array(); $arr[] = 'value0'; $arr['key1'] = 'value1'; $arr['key2'] = 'value2'; $arr[] = 'value3'; return $arr;
}

that will output

// you see the first and fourth value has the index 0 and 1,
// the other those that are defined
array(4) { [0]=> string(6) "value0" ["key1"]=> string(6) "value1" ["key2"]=> string(6) "value2" [1]=> string(6) "value3"
}

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