Comments on: PHP: Removing an item from an array

By: hypnosis.course

hypnosis.course — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:11:12 +0000

As of yet, PHP does not provide an ‘official’ way of removing an array element which is not guaranteed to be at the start or end of the array.

So, after a bit of searching around I found this novel way of removing an element from an array by its value(s) using PHPs array_diff function

By: hypnosiscourse

hypnosiscourse — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:11:12 +0000

As of yet, PHP does not provide an ‘official’ way of removing an array element which is not guaranteed to be at the start or end of the array.

So, after a bit of searching around I found this novel way of removing an element from an array by its value(s) using PHPs array_diff function

By: eq2 plat

eq2 plat — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 17:08:50 +0000

Correct, you could use array_diff() to delete an element if you know what the elements are that you are deleting. I chose to use an array_filter() though because you can do conditional deleting. For example, you can delete it only if it’s not numeric or if it’s greater than 5 characters.

You can’t perform conditional deletes using an array_diff() but it is a simple way to delete items you do know the value.. Thanks for another quick way to delete an item from an array in php.