php hashtables?

[JMaster]

Does php have any built in hash functions?
I currently have a multidimensional array of classes and I need to re-code all this into hashtables. I always thought that a hash table is a generic term used to describe a set of data where a key indexes the piece of data you want, and an array would fit this general description.

 

[igowerf]

PHP arrays are actually stored as hash tables internally, I believe. You can store information using keys like this:

$myArray['date'] = "3/24/05";
$myArray['time'] = "11:40am";