Negative array indices?

[WarKirby]

Something I'm used to using in another langage is negative indices when referring to array elements, which counts backwards. ie, -1 returns the last element. -2 the second last, etc.

 

Does PHP support this? If not, what's the simplest way to grab the last element of an array ?

[The Little Guy]

this might be what you are looking for:

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[oni-kun]

Something I'm used to using in another langage is negative indices when referring to array elements, which counts backwards. ie, -1 returns the last element. -2 the second last, etc.

 

Does PHP support this? If not, what's the simplest way to grab the last element of an array ?

 

Nope. -1 and -2 is actually their own array indexes. This can be a simple solution, which is common coding practise:

$secondlast = $arr[count($arr)-1]

[gerkintrigg]

I just did it like this:

foreach($array as $key=>$value){
     $last_array_element=$key.': '.$value;
}
echo $last_array_element;

 

It works fine for a few elements, but is certainly not advisable for a lot of them and it's not the cleanest way to do it.

[salathe]

You could also use array_slice/current in such a manner. For example: (Try this code)

 

$array     = array('alpha', 'bravo', 'charlie', 'delta');
$last      = current(array_slice($array, -1, 1));
$next_last = current(array_slice($array, -2, 1));

var_dump($last, $next_last);