[Resolved] Array problem

[bubblenut]

Hi, I've been looking through the PHP Manual but can't seem to find a sollution to my problem. It's not an uncommon problem so I'm sure there is an easy way of handling it.
I am strying to search an array for a particular value if it found then move this value to the front of the array. This is what I developed.

<?php
function movetotop($code) {
  global $the_array;
  if(in_array($code,$the_array)) {
    $pos=array_search($code, $the_array);
    array_unshift($the_array,$code);
    unset($the_array[($pos+1)];
}
?>

However the problem I am having with this is holes in the array. Where the element is being moved from (and unset from) there is a blank whole. What I would like to happen is for all the elements after to move down much like if I had done the whole operation with a stack.

Thanks in advance
Bubble

[bubblenut]

Found it!! array_splice() WOW!! that is one usefull array function. It can do virtually anything with an array!
The whole thing looks like this now.

<?php
function movetotop($code) {
  global $the_array;
  if(in_array($code,$the_array)) {
    $pos=array_search($code, $the_array);
    array_unshift($the_array,$code);
    array_splice($the_array,($pos+1),1);
}
?>