DevShed has posted a new article today with an excerpt from the APress book "Beginning PHP 5 and MySQL: From Novice to Professional" concerning Arrays in PHP.

Arrays offer an ideal means for storing, manipulating, sorting, and retrieving the kinds of data sets that programmers spend a lot of time working with. PHP supports the array data type. This article explains the array-based features and functions it supports. It is excerpted from the book, Beginning PHP 5 and MySQL: From Novice to Professional, by W. Jason Gilmore (Apress, 2004; ISBN: 1893115518).

They discuss what arrays are, how to use them, adding/removing elements from them, sorting, and traversing them. It looks like a pretty good intro for those out there looking to move up from the world of simple varaibles...