How can PHP developers ensure that array indexes start at 1 instead of 0?

In PHP, array indexes always start at 0 by default. To ensure that array indexes start at 1 instead of 0, developers can manually set the initial index of the array to 1 and then increment it accordingly when adding elements to the array. 

<?php

$array = [];
$index = 1;

$array[$index] = "Element 1";
$index++;

$array[$index] = "Element 2";
$index++;

print_r($array);

?>

Keywords

PHP array index start at 1 zero-based indexing

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