Are there best practices for maintaining consistent array key order in PHP?

When working with associative arrays in PHP, the order of keys is not guaranteed to remain consistent. To maintain a consistent order of keys, you can use functions like ksort() or krsort() to sort the array by keys in ascending or descending order, respectively. 

// Example code to maintain consistent array key order
$array = ['b' => 2, 'a' => 1, 'c' => 3];

ksort($array); // Sort the array by keys in ascending order

// Output the array with consistent key order
foreach ($array as $key => $value) {
    echo $key . ' => ' . $value . PHP_EOL;
}

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