Adding and Removing Array Elements in PHP

Introduction

This article explains adding and removing Array Elements in PHP. For this explanation I used some functions for adding and removing array elements. These functions are very important and useful to us in an array for adding and removing array elements.

Syntax

This function adds elements to the start of an array.

Array_unshift($array ,$var);

Parameter	Description
Array	the array name.
Values	the values or elements to be added at the start position.

Example

<?php

$name = array("John", "Tom");

array_unshift($name, "Jony", "Richy");

echo "<pre>";print_r($name);

Output

Syntax

This function removes elements from the start of an array.

Array_shift($array);

Parameter	Description
Array	the array name.

Example

<?php

$name = array("John", "Tom", "Jony", "Richy");

array_shift($name);

echo "<pre>";print_r($name);

Output

Syntax

This function adds elements to the end of an array.

Array_push($array ,$var);

Parameter	Description
Array	the array name
Values	the values or elements to be added at the last position.

Example

<?php

$name = array("John", "Tom");

array_push($name, "Jony", "Richy");

echo "<pre>";print_r($name);

Output

Syntax

This function removes elements from the end of an array.

Array_pop($array);

Parameter	Description
Array	the array name.

Example

<?php

$name = array("John", "Tom", "Jony", "Richy");

array_pop($name);

echo "<pre>";print_r($name);

Output