[RESOLVED] Another question about rearranging array items

mband2000

Ok.. I asked a question on the forum a few days ago about swaping items in an array.. and the answer was pretty simple... but now my problem is a little bigger.

Now I need to actually rearrange the items in an array like this:

array[0] = apples
array[1] = oranges
array[2] = grapes
array[3] = bannana
array[4] = pear
array[5] = grape fruit

^{^how} can I turn that..... into this:

array[0] = grape fruit
array[1] = apples
array[2] = oranges
array[3] = grapes
array[4] = bannana
array[5] = pear

Basically grape fruit was moved to the top of the array index and everything else was moved down automatically.

Can this be done?

mymainoffender

Put them all into their own variable, then remake the array =\ dont know if that would work but just an idea

mband2000

you're right.. that works with a small list.

But the project I'm creating this for will have nearly 500 items in the array

mymainoffender

is mysql and option?

mband2000

I'm pulling the items from a row in the mysql database..

basically it's stored in mysql as a string like this.. "apples,oranges,pears,ect,ect":

Then I explode the string into an array using..

$array = explode(",", $row['fruit']);

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And that's how the array comes into the picture... now I'm just trying to figure out how to rearrange the array so I can impolde the array back into string format and re-insert it into the database.

PS. ofcourse in real life I'm not storing fruit like this in the array.. the actual array consist of ID Keys for products in a certain store. But I thought fruit would be a little more simple to grasp.

mymainoffender

why not have somthing like printorder and you edit that?

BTW, no one is looking at this, if you know a little bit about php would you check it out.... http://phpbuilder.com/board/showthread.php?t=10315232

mband2000

I'm not sure what print order is...

Installer

Use array_pop() and array_unshift().

mband2000

That's exactly what I needed.. thank you very much Installer!!

and thank you too mymainoffender for helping