Question

Suppose I have this array:

 $array = array('10', '20', '30.30', '40', '50');

Questions:

What is the fastest/easiest way to remove the first item from the above array?
What is the fastest/easiest way to remove the last item from the above array?

So the resulting array contains only these values:

• ’20’
• ‘30.30’
• ’40’

Answer 1

Using array_slice is simplest

$newarray = array_slice($array, 1, -1);

If the input array has less than 3 elements in it, the output array will be empty.