Question

I’m having an array for example with 4 elements array("a", "b", "c", d"); what is the fastest way to repeat this array to create a new array with a certain length, e.g 71 elements?

Answer 1

// the variables
$array = array("a", "b", "c", "d");
$desiredLength = 71;
$newArray = array();
// create a new array with AT LEAST the desired number of elements by joining the array at the end of the new array
while(count($newArray) <= $desiredLength){
    $newArray = array_merge($newArray, $array);
}
// reduce the new array to the desired length (as there might be too many elements in the new array
$array = array_slice($newArray, 0, $desiredLength);