note 66990 added to function.unset

One problem i came across while using this function to destroy an element of an array, was that it left the keys of an array "jumbled up". For example: <?php $array = ("10","5","3","1","7"); unset($array[2]); unset($array[3]); print_r($array); ?> This gives: array { [0] => 10 [1] => 5 [4] => 7 } Note that, the keys have been left as before, rather than sorted into 0, 1, 2. To fix this,the following can be used: <?php $array = ("10","5","3","1","7"); unset($array[2]); unset($array[3]); $new_array = array(); end($array); // Set the pointer to end of the array $loop = key($array); // Get the last key of the array (which is the number we're counting to!) reset($array); // Reset pointer back to start for($i=0;$i<=$loop;$i++) { if(array_key_exists($i,$array)) array_push($new_array,$array[$i]); } print_r($new_array); ?> This gives: new_array { [0] => 10 [1] => 5 [2] => 7 } What we have done is basically, create a new array, and cycled through all the old array, adding any values where there was a key into the new array, until we had cycled to the last key in the old array. Hope this helps! ---- Server IP: 85.116.0.130 Probable Submitter: 200.55.87.254 ---- X-Spam-Status: No, hits=3.1 required=5.0 tests=DATE_MISSING,FROM_NO_LOWER autolearn=no version=2.64 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.unset.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/note/edit/66990 Del: integrated -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/66990/integrated Del: useless -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/66990/useless Del: bad code -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/66990/bad+code Del: spam -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/66990/spam Del: non-english -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/66990/non-english Del: in docs -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/66990/in+docs Del: other reasons-- http://master.php.net/note/delete/66990 Reject -- http://master.php.net/note/reject/66990 Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php