adding onto array

[DragonHighLord]

I was wandering how you just a value into an array without having to track the number in [], example:

What I would like to have as end results are:
$food=array();
$food[0] = "cake";
$food[1] = "apples";
$food[2] = "candy";

This is what I have
I define food as an array at top of page
$food = array();

The [0] value will always be cake no matter what, so at the beginning I set that value to cake
$food[0] = "cake";

But later I will be adding items into the array inside a loop

$items=2; //number of items I'm adding into array

$cntr=1; //to control the loop
while ( $cntr <= $items )
{
//code here to just add $item as the next value in the array
//I can't say $food[$incrementcounter] =$item because I'll have to leave the function then come back into again to add more items later and that tracker number would be reset (unless I mae it global, but I'm trying to stay away from that)

$cntr++;

}

Thanks a lot

[128kb_com]

You can use the array_push() function too add elements to the end of an array with no index []

$food = array();
$food[0] = "cake";

array_push ($food, "apple");
// $food[0] is still "cake"
// $food[1] is now "apple"

you can also specify multiple values like so:

array_push ($food, "orange", "bananna");
// $food[0] is still "cake"
// $food[1] is still"apple"
// $food[2] is now "orange"
// $food[3] is now "bananna"

[DragonHighLord]

thanks, just what I was looking for

[ednark]

you can also just leave the index empty

$arr = array();
$arr[] = 'last';
$arr[] = 'now this is last';
$arr[] = 'no, now this is last';

is same as

$arr = array(
    'last',
    'now this is last',
    'no, now this is last'
);