What are some potential pitfalls when handling arrays with similar key names in PHP?

When handling arrays with similar key names in PHP, a potential pitfall is overwriting values if keys are repeated. To avoid this issue, you can use multidimensional arrays to group similar key names under different parent keys. 

// Example of using multidimensional arrays to handle similar key names
$array = [
    'parent1' => [
        'key1' => 'value1',
        'key2' => 'value2',
    ],
    'parent2' => [
        'key1' => 'value3',
        'key2' => 'value4',
    ],
];

// Accessing values
echo $array['parent1']['key1']; // Output: value1
echo $array['parent2']['key1']; // Output: value3

Keywords

array key names collisions array_merge array_replace

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