Question

I’m frequently using the following to get the second to last value in an array:

$z=array_pop(array_slice($array,-2,1));

Am I missing a php function to do that in one go or is that the best I have?

Answer 1

end($array);
$z = prev($array);

This is more efficient than your solution because it relies on the array’s internal pointer. Your solution does an uncessary copy of the array.