Hi,
Comming from C mostly, I've been trying to wrap my head around how a php array is implemented.
It doesn't seem that they could be in contiguous memory, so are they all done as linked lists?

I've been looking at w3schools and tizag.com and some on php.net and haven't had seen anything much about it.
Inquiring minds, you know... It is probably buried in php.net someplace.
I now have an excuse to learn some php! I think it's pretty neat.
Many similarities to C ...like the functions , many of which are practically identical!

Within a tutorial, found here, I found this under the 'associate array' portion of the tutorial.
Not sure how helpful that is (or not).

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Thanks, sure that's helpful, it agreees with what I'm seeing here:
http://us2.php.net/types.array
...ordered map...hmmm , I'll have to think about that for a while...
Sure is one heck of an 'automatic variable".
Maybe something will pop up that gives a more complete explaination of what goes on under the hood.

Interesting from your link:
I can't (yet) seem to find the "considerable literature" they speak of.
I'm assuming that might be a white-paper or something.

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