Convert associative array to separate variables named by keys in PHP

Description

The following code shows how to convert associative array to separate variables named by keys.

Example

//ww w . ja v  a  2  s .c  o  m
<?php
    $a = "Original";
    $my_array = array("a" => "Cat","b" => "Dog", "c" => "Horse");
    extract($my_array);
    echo "\$a = $a; \$b = $b; \$c = $c";
?>

The code above generates the following result.