How to get the first item from an associative PHP array?
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(
I'm trying to get the value of 'name' from this associative array. Here's the code:

```php
$data = array(
    array('name' => 'John', 'age' => '25'),
    array('name' => 'Jane', 'age' => '27'),
);

// Some processing...

$firstItem = $data[0];

$firstName = $