How to echo an array in PHP?

Question

If I have an array defined like this in PHP:

$stocked = [];
array_push($stocked, "beer");
array_push($stocked, "chocolate");

How do I print out the array? I tried using echo, but it just gives "Array". What I want is for the output to be ["beer", "chocolate"].

Does this answer your question? [php var\_dump() vs print\_r()](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3406171/php-var-dump-vs-print-r) — Jaquarh, Jul 07 '20 at 08:47

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 07 '20 at 08:46

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To get the exact output you requested, you could encode the array as JSON, e.g.

echo json_encode($stocked);

answered Jul 07 '20 at 08:46

ADyson

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KUMAR · Answer 2 · 2020-07-07T08:53:16.847

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<?php
$stocked = [];
array_push($stocked, "beer");
array_push($stocked, "chocolate");

echo "<pre>";
print_r($stocked);

echo '<br>';
echo $stocked[0].'<br>';
echo $stocked[1];
   
?>

Output:-

Array
(
    [0] => beer
    [1] => chocolate
)

beer
chocolate

edited Jul 07 '20 at 08:53

answered Jul 07 '20 at 08:47

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 07 '20 at 08:43

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You can use the following functions:

var_dump();
print_r();  // You can use these with <pre> tags to get prettier output : echo "<pre>" . print_r($yourArray, true) . "</pre>";
dd(); // Note: this will halt the execution.

answered Jul 07 '20 at 08:43

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How to echo an array in PHP?

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