Deleting Array Elements

[pahikua]

How do I delete an element of an array. Let's say I have an array with 5 elements. I can do this:

$my_array[2] = "";

but that only sets the third element to be an empty string. How do I get it so that instead of having a five element array it completely gets rid of the element leaving me with only a four element array?

Mahalo for the help,

Pahikua

[pahikua]

got it, I made a function that unsets the element and then returns a new array without the unset element.

[TurboWaffle]

One way to delete an element is to use unset() :

unset($my_array[2]);

<?
$stuff = array('bob' => 'foobar', 'joe' => 'barfoo');
print_r($stuff);
unset($stuff['bob']);
print_r($stuff);
?>

Output:
Array
(
[bob] => foobar
[joe] => barfoo
)
Array
(
[joe] => barfoo
)