对于使用Laravel的用户:

如果给定数组是关联数组，则isAssoc返回true。如果数组没有以0开头的连续数字键，则数组被认为是“关联的”:

use Illuminate\Support\Arr;

$isAssoc = Arr::isAssoc(['product' => ['name' => 'Desk', 'price' => 100]]);

// true

$isAssoc = Arr::isAssoc([1, 2, 3]);

// false

https://laravel.com/docs/8.x/helpers#method-array-isassoc

/*
iszba - Is Zero Based Array

Detects if an array is zero based or not.

PARAMS:
    $chkvfnc
        Callback in the loop allows to check the values of each element.
        Signature:
            bool function chkvfnc($v);
            return:
                true    continue looping
                false   stop looping; iszba returns false too.

NOTES:
○ assert: $array is an array.
○ May be memory efficient;
  it doesn't get extra arrays via array_keys() or ranges() into the function.
○ Is pretty fast without a callback.
○ With callback it's ~2.4 times slower.
*/
function iszba($array, $chkvfnc=null){

    $ncb = !$chkvfnc;
    $i = 0;

    foreach($array as $k => $v){
        if($k === $i++)
            if($ncb || $chkvfnc($v))
                continue;

        return false;
    }

    return true;
}

•没有回调，比当前领先的回答快30%。 而且可能内存效率更高。

•只需对答案求反，就可以知道数组是否应该被认为是关联的。

一种廉价而肮脏的方法是这样检查:

isset($myArray[count($myArray) - 1])

.．.如果你的数组是这样的，你可能会得到一个假阳性:

$myArray = array("1" => "apple", "b" => "banana");

一个更彻底的方法可能是检查钥匙:

function arrayIsAssociative($myArray) {
    foreach (array_keys($myArray) as $ind => $key) {
        if (!is_numeric($key) || (isset($myArray[$ind + 1]) && $myArray[$ind + 1] != $key + 1)) {
            return true;
        }
    }
    return false;
}
// this will only return true if all the keys are numeric AND sequential, which
// is what you get when you define an array like this:
// array("a", "b", "c", "d", "e");

or

function arrayIsAssociative($myArray) {
    $l = count($myArray);
    for ($i = 0; $i < $l, ++$i) {
        if (!isset($myArray[$i])) return true;
    }
    return false;
}
// this will return a false positive on an array like this:
$x = array(1 => "b", 0 => "a", 2 => "c", 4 => "e", 3 => "d");

function isAssoc($arr)
{
    $a = array_keys($arr);
    for($i = 0, $t = count($a); $i < $t; $i++)
    {
        if($a[$i] != $i)
        {
            return false;
        }
    }
    return true;
}

我很惊讶没有人提到array_key_first()

对于您的测试用例:

$sequentialArray = array('apple', 'orange', 'tomato', 'carrot');
$isIndexedArray = is_int( array_key_first($sequentialArray) ); // true

而

$assocArray = array('fruit1' => 'apple', 
                'fruit2' => 'orange', 
                'veg1' => 'tomato', 
                'veg2' => 'carrot');

$isIndexedArray = is_int( array_key_first($assocArray) ); // false

在这里阅读更多关于这个函数的信息。

还有另一种方法。

function array_isassociative($array)
{
    // Create new Array,  Make it the same size as the input array
    $compareArray = array_pad(array(), count($array), 0);

    // Compare the two array_keys
    return (count(array_diff_key($array, $compareArray))) ? true : false;

}