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));
}

你可以用一个语言结构"list"得到第n个元素:

// First item
list($firstItem) = $yourArray;

// First item from an array that is returned from a function
list($firstItem) = functionThatReturnsArray();

// Second item
list( , $secondItem) = $yourArray;

使用array_keys函数，你可以对键做同样的事情:

list($firstKey) = array_keys($yourArray);
list(, $secondKey) = array_keys($yourArray);

这是一个结合了array_slice和implode的例子:

$arr = array(1, 2, 3);
echo implode(array_slice($arr, 0, 1));
// Outputs 1

/*---------------------------------*/

$arr = array(
    'key_1' => 'One',
    'key_2' => 'Two',
    'key_3' => 'Three',
);
echo implode(array_slice($arr, 0, 1));
// Outputs One

Use:

$first = array_slice($array, 0, 1);  
$val= $first[0];

默认情况下，array_slice不保留键，所以我们可以安全地使用0作为索引。

<?php
    $arr = array(3 => "Apple", 5 => "Ball", 11 => "Cat");
    echo array_values($arr)[0]; // Outputs: Apple
?>

其他的例子:

<?php
    $arr = array(3 => "Apple", 5 => "Ball", 11 => "Cat");
    echo current($arr); // Outputs: Apple
    echo reset($arr); // Outputs: Apple
    echo next($arr); // Outputs: Ball
    echo current($arr); // Outputs: Ball
    echo reset($arr); // Outputs: Apple
?>

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));
}