How can associative arrays in PHP be utilized to manipulate navigation links in MediaWiki?

To manipulate navigation links in MediaWiki using associative arrays in PHP, you can create an array with the link text as keys and the corresponding URLs as values. Then, you can loop through this array to generate the navigation links dynamically.

// Define an associative array of navigation links
$navLinks = array(
    'Home' => 'index.php',
    'About' => 'about.php',
    'Contact' => 'contact.php'
);

// Loop through the array to generate navigation links
foreach ($navLinks as $text => $url) {
    echo '<a href="' . $url . '">' . $text . '</a>';
}