How to get the first item from an associative PHP array?
```php
// Assuming $array is your associative array
$firstKey = key($array); // Get the first key
$firstValue = $array[$firstKey]; // Get the first value
```

In case you want to loop through the array and get the first value using a function like `array_shift()` or `list()`, here's how you can do it:

```php
// If you want to
To get the first item (in terms of alphabetical ordering) from an associative array in PHP, you cannot directly access it as an array index since keys are associative and need not be numeric or sequential.

Instead, you should first get an array of keys (sorted alphabetically), then use the first key to fetch the corresponding value. Here's how you could implement this:

```php
$yourArray = array(