Other Useful Array Functions

This article introduces a number of array ( what is an array ) functions ( more about functions in php ) that perhaps don’t easily fall ...

Splicing and Dissecting Arrays

Splicing an Array The array_splice() function removes all elements of an array ( what is an array ) found within a specified range, retu...

Merging And Slicing Arrays

This section introduces a number of functions ( more about functions in PHP ) that are capable of performing somewhat more complex array-...

Sorting Arrays :: continued

Sorting an Array Naturally The natsort() function is intended to offer a sorting mechanism comparable to the mechanisms that people nor...

Sorting Arrays

To be sure, data sorting is a central topic of computer science. Anybody who’s taken an entry-level programming class is well aware of so...

Determining Array Size and Uniqueness

A few functions ( more about functions in PHP ) are available in PHP for determining the number of total and unique array ( what is an ar...

Traversing Arrays

The need to travel across an array  ( what is an array ) and retrieve various keys, values, or both is common, so it’s not a surprise th...

Adding and Removing Array Elements

PHP provides a number of functions for both growing and shrinking an array ( what is an array? ) . Some of these functions are provided...

Outputting Arrays

Now that you know what is an array ? and how to create an array ?, it is the time to learn how to output arrays . The most common way to ...

Creating Arrays

Unlike other languages, PHP doesn’t require that you assign a size to an array at creation time. In fact, because it’s a loosely typed l...

Arrays

Being a programmer you will be tackling large heaps of data many a times, in php also, like storing the username, email, password and o...

PHP Basics–Part 7 :: String Interpolation

When you need to control which php [ more about php scripting language ] code should be parsed and which should not or you want to beauti...

PHP Basics - Part 4 :: continued

Converting Between Data Types Using Type Casting Converting values from one datatype to another is known as type casting. A variable ...