PHP shuffle() Function
PHP provides the built-in ability to randomly sort, i.e. shuffle, an array of values in place. The PHP shuffle() function takes a standard array of values and swaps each element randomly with another...
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PHP provides incredibly rich and diverse functionality for manipulating arrays. The word "array" and the data type array() in PHP is a bit of a misnomer because the built-in functionality of PHP is...
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Even though PHP has an intrinsic array data type you as the programmer have the ability to manipulate arrays in several different ways. PHP can manipulate the array() data type as though it were a...
View ArticlePHP array_shift() Function Definition
PHP has a built-in array() data type which can be easily treated as though it were a list or a queue data type. The way to do this is through the use of the array_shift() function which takes the...
View ArticlePHP array_shift() With Non-Numeric Keys
The built-in array() data type has many ways that it can be manipulated. One of those ways is through the array_shift() function that treats an array as a queue, taking array elements from the front of...
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