Removing from Array

Heloo!

I've got an array e.g.

$array = bill, ben, flowerpot, men, cake

I need to remove ben (for obvious reasons)

how can i do this without knowing where in the array ben is?

something like

remove("ben", $array);

but i know it isn't that easy.

Loop through the aray, check if each element is 'ben' and use unset() on those elements that are 'ben'.

Try this

function remove($remove,$array)
{
while(list($key,$val)=each($array))
{
if($val=="$remove")
break;
}

$output1 = array_slice($array, 0,$key);
$output2 = array_slice($array, $key+1);
$output=array_merge($output1,$output2);
return $output;
}

$array = array("bill","ben","flowerpot","men","cake");

$array=remove("ben",$array);

for($i=0;$i<count($array);$i++)
{
echo $array[$i],"<br>";
}

function remove($remove,$array)
{

for($i=0;$i<count($array);$i++)
{
if($array[$i]!="$remove")
{
$output[]=$array[$i];
}
}
return $output;
}

$array = array("bill","ben","flowerpot","men","cake");

$array=remove("ben",$array);

for($i=0;$i<count($array);$i++)
{
echo $array[$i],"<br>";
}

I ended up using this:

function rm_array($array, $bit){
foreach($array as $element){
if($element != $bit){
$newarray[] = $element;
}
}
return $newarray;
}

which works like

$array = rm_array($array, "ben");

which seemed to work

thanks