Can items in PHP associative arrays not be accessed numerically (i.e. by index)?

Question

I\'m trying to understand why, on my page with a query string, the code:

echo \"Item count = \" . count($_GET);
echo \"First item = \" . $_         


        

Answer 1

As another weird workaround, you can access the very first element using:

 print $_GET[key($_GET)];

This utilizes the internal array pointer, like reset/end/current(), could be useful in an each() loop.