Question

Is there an easy way to split an array into two arrays, one consisting of all the keys and the other consisting of all the values? This would be a reverse to the action of array_combine. Is there an inbuilt function for doing such a task?
Let’s use an example array:

$array = array('Tiger' => 'Forest', 'Hippo' => 'River', 'Bird' => 'Sky');

Is there a function that will split the above array into:

$array_keys = array('Tiger', 'Hippo', 'Bird');
$array_values = array('Forest', 'River', 'Sky');

Answer 1

There are two functions called array_keys and array_values:

$array_keys = array_keys($array);
$array_values = array_values($array);