Deleting items from arrays

[Anon]

Hi there,
I just came out of a long time mineing in the php manual to find a way to delete an item from an array. Am I blind or what? Is it possible to delete an item from an array in some direct way or working around it?
Any suggestion welcome. Than you a lot.

Maurizio Del Buffa

[Anon]

try out: unset $myArray[$myIndex];

[Anon]

thank you but this dows'nt work out. It results in

Parse error: parse error, expecting `'('' in E:\P\Php3\info.php on line 10

How about using array_splice() function? The only problem is that I use associative arrays and I don't know have to get the index item given the associative index.

Thank you anyway. Maurizio Del Buffa

[Anon]

Maybe this:
unset($myArray[$myIndex]);

[Anon]

The problem with unset() is this.

$text[0] = 0;
$text[1] = 1;
$text[2] = 2;
$text[3] = 3
$text[4] = 4;

// -note- will work
foreach ($text as $val)
echo "text[$c] == $val \n";

// -note- will work
for ($c = 0; $c < count($text); $c++)
echo "text[$c] == $text[$c] \n";

unset($text[2]);

// -note- will work
foreach ($text as $val)
echo "text[$c] == $val \n";

// -note- will NOT work
for ($c = 0; $c < count($text); $c++)
echo "text[$c] == $text[$c] \n";

// -----------------------

function del_elem($old_arr, $index)
{
foreach ($text as $key => $val)
{
if ($key != $index)
$new_arr[] = $old_arr[$key];
}
return $new_arr;
}

$text[0] = 0;
$text[1] = 1;
$text[2] = 2;
$text[3] = 3
$text[4] = 4;

// -note- will work
foreach ($text as $val)
echo "text[$c] == $val \n";

// -note- will work
for ($c = 0; $c < count($text); $c++)
echo "text[$c] == $text[$c] \n";

$text = del_elem($text, 2);

// -note- will work
foreach ($text as $val)
echo "text[$c] == $val \n";

// -note- will work
for ($c = 0; $c < count($text); $c++)
echo "text[$c] == $text[$c] \n";

// ------------------

the last example will shift all the elements in the array. ie.

$text[0] = 0;
$text[1] = 1;
$text[2] = 2;
$text[3] = 3
$text[4] = 4;

then becomes

$text[0] = 0;
$text[1] = 1;
$text[2] = 3;
$text[3] = 4

The last example will NOT work for index's like this.

$text["chris"] = 0;
$text["lee"] = 1;
$text["was"] = 2;
$text["here"] = 3
$text["today"] = 4;

it will make them this....

$text[0] = 0;
$text[1] = 1;
$text[2] = 3;
$text[3] = 4

Thats not what you want.

Hope this helps.

Chris Lee

[Anon]

Thank you Peter.
That worked out fine. Bye
Maurizio