PHP 5.4 +:

array_values($array)[0];

$arr = array( 4 => 'apple', 7 => 'orange', 13 => 'plum' );
foreach($arr as $first) break;
echo $first;

输出:

apple

我输入echo current($array)

大部分都有用!但是对于一个快速的单线(低资源)呼叫:

$array = array( 4 => 'apple', 7 => 'orange', 13 => 'plum' );
echo $array[key($array)];

// key($array) -> will return the first key (which is 4 in this example)

虽然这是可行的，而且还不错，但请参阅我的额外答案: https://stackoverflow.com/a/48410351/1804013

$arr = $array = array( 9 => 'apple', 7 => 'orange', 13 => 'plum' );
echo reset($arr); // echoes 'apple'

如果不想丢失当前指针的位置，只需为数组创建一个别名。

同样值得记住的是您执行此操作的上下文，因为详尽的检查可能是昂贵的，而且并不总是必要的。

例如，这个解决方案在我使用它的情况下工作得很好(但显然不能在所有情况下都依赖它……)

 /**
 * A quick and dirty way to determine whether the passed in array is associative or not, assuming that either:<br/>
 * <br/>
 * 1) All the keys are strings - i.e. associative<br/>
 * or<br/>
 * 2) All the keys are numeric - i.e. not associative<br/>
 *
 * @param array $objects
 * @return boolean
 */
private function isAssociativeArray(array $objects)
{
    // This isn't true in the general case, but it's a close enough (and quick) approximation for the context in
    // which we're using it.

    reset($objects);
    return count($objects) > 0 && is_string(key($objects));
}