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PHP and accessing Array Elements

I have some data thats returned in form of array and when i do a print_r($LoginData); i get this

Array
(
    [0] => Array
        (
            [UserId] => acme
            [Password] => 123456
            [Spid] => 123L
        )

    [1] => Array
        (
            [UserId] => frank
            [Password] => Password
            [Spid] => 999E
        )

)

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$arrayLen = count($LoginData); comes back with 2 but then when i try

echo $LoginData[0][0].": Password: ".$LoginData[0][1].", Spid: ".$LoginData[0][2].".<br>";
or 
echo $LoginData[0]['UserId'].": Password: ".$LoginData[0]['Password'].", Spid: ".$LoginData[0]['Spid'].".<br>";

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i get the following error

Notice: Undefined offset: 0 in /var/www/html/Nanpa/dbTest.php on line 23 
 
Notice: Undefined offset: 1 in /var/www/html/Nanpa/dbTest.php on line 23 
 
Notice: Undefined offset: 2 in /var/www/html/Nanpa/dbTest.php on line 23 
: Password: , Spid: .

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Dave Baldwin

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Julian Hansen

To expand on Dave's post

Take a look at the print_r output
Anything inside [ ] is an index - if you want to access that member you have to use the chain of index names to get there (as shown in the [ ])

What is the chain? In your example it starts with the variable that you used in the print_r - in this case $LoginData
Next we look at the first level of indexes - we can see from the output there are two elements in the topmost array indexed 0 and 1.
Each of these elements refers to another array indexed by UserId, Password and Spid.
Chain is therefore

$LoginData[0]['UserID'] for the first UserId
$LoginData[1]['Password'] for the second item's Password

Index values that are strings require quotes around them ['stringIndexValue'], numeric indexes do not require quotes BUT you can put quotes around them and they still work.

Ray Paseur

Here's how quotation marks work in PHP. This knowledge may be helpful when you're dealing with array indexes.
https://www.experts-exchange.com/articles/12241/Quotation-Marks-in-PHP.html