Posted by Jordan Miller on 09/19/05 17:04

On Sep 19, 2005, at 8:31 AM, Jochem Maas wrote:


> e.g:
>
> $var = array_pop( explode('-', '1-2-3-4-5') );
>
> .. is bad code (read the manual page for array_pop very carefully)
> and would work
> in older versions but the engine has been tightened up to disallow
> such fauxpas.
>


Jochem,

Whoa... what do you mean by this, exactly? I am running PHP 5.0.4 and
$var is correctly set with the code you give above. I could not find
anything like you describe in the array_pop manual (see below).
Please elaborate on why this is "bad" code.

Jordan

array_pop

(PHP 4, PHP 5)

array_pop -- Pop the element off the end of array
Description

mixed array_pop ( array &array )

array_pop() pops and returns the last value of the array, shortening
the array by one element. If array is empty (or is not an array),
NULL will be returned.

Note: This function will reset() the array pointer after use.

Example 1. array_pop() example

<?php
$stack = array("orange", "banana", "apple", "raspberry");
$fruit = array_pop($stack);
print_r($stack);
?>
After this, $stack will have only 3 elements:

Array
(
[0] => orange
[1] => banana
[2] => apple
)
and raspberry will be assigned to $fruit.

See also array_push(), array_shift(), and array_unshift().

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