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- Adding Array Elements 5:08
- List Quiz 5 questions
- Removing Array Elements 4:50
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- Modifying Arrays 3 objectives
- Associative Arrays 3:48
- Associative Quiz 5 questions
- Mixing Data Types in Arrays 6:07
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- Sorting Arrays 6:16
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Removing Array Elements
4:50Let's hope our todo list is getting smaller because we're getting stuff done, so we need to be able to remove things from our list. In this video we'll look at three ways php gives us to remove an element from an array.
Adding things to a to-do list is great.
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Unless we don't actually do
anything on our to-do list,
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then it hasn't helped us at all.
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Let's hope that our to-do list
is getting smaller because we're
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actually getting stuff done.
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So we need to be able to
remove things from our list.
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Let's look at three ways provided by
PHP to remove elements from an array.
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First, in opposition to array_unshift,
we also have array_shift.
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This removes the first
element from the array.
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array_shift only takes one parameter,
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the array from which to
remove the first element.
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Let's go back to workspaces.
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We'll add array_shift and
then our array $learn.
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array_shift doesn't just zap
this element out of existence.
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First it will return the element so
you can use it for whatever you want.
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Maybe move it to a new array or
display a message of what was removed.
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We can either assign it to a variable or
we can use it directly in our message.
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Let's echo 'you removed ' and
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then array_shift.
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Now let's run our script.
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We see you removed HTML and
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we can also see that the HTML
element is no longer in our list.
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We can also remove elements from
the end of the array using array_pop.
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array_pop will also return
the element before it's removed.
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So let's duplicate this line and
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we'll replace array_shift with array_pop.
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Now let's run the script again.
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We can see that we removed HTML and
Objects from our list.
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Finally, you can remove any specific array
element as long as you know the key.
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To unset the second element of the array,
we would use unset,
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the name of our array,
$learn, and the element's key.
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The key of the second element is 1.
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unset will take multiple parameters.
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So you can unset more than
one element at a time.
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We can add, learn[2],
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which would unset the second and
third parameters.
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Now you can see that the keys one and
two are no longer in our list.
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And their values of conditionals and
arrays are gone as well.
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I want to point out that the other
functions that we've been using
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updated the array keys,
but unset does not.
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So when we removed keys one and two, it
left a hole between keys zero and three.
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This could be the result you want.
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For example,
if this list is in order of priority and
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you remove an item when it's complete,
knowing which number and
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how many have been
removed could be helpful.
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In this example, I know that items one and
two are complete, so
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I should really work on item zero.
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If you never use the key but
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just print out a list of items,
the keys themselves don't really matter.
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However, another example
would be with a top ten list.
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When an item gets pushed
out of its position,
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you want to shift the positions
of all the items.
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You always have ten items and you want
to pull a specific item by position.
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This requires re-indexing the array keys.
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We do this using the
array_values function,
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learn = array_values($learn).
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array_values creates a new
array out of the array values.
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Since we're assigning the results
back to our learn array,
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it works like a refresh of our array keys.
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unset can be used with any variable,
not just array elements.
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You can also unset the entire array,
effectively destroying the array,
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unset($learn);.
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Now we see an error because the variable,
$learn, no longer exists.
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