JavaScript - short way of declaring an associative array

Question

Is there a short way of declaring an associative array like in PHP?

$myArray = array(\'a\' => \'b\'); // PHP Way

In JavaScript I\'d do i

Answer 1

Declare an object like this:

var myArray = {"a": "b", "c": "d"};

... and then refer to each item like this:

var somethingElse = myArray["a"]; //Sets "somethingElse" to "b".

As @Chris and @Marc mention in the comments: in JavaScript, objects ARE associative arrays, and vice versa, they just refer to two different ways of doing the same thing. For Example...

var somethingElse = myArray["a"];
var anotherVariable = myArray.a;

... do the same thing.