PHP: How to remove specific element from an array?

Question

How do I remove an element from an array when I know the elements name? for example:

I have an array:

$array = array('apple', 'orange', 'strawberry', 'blueberry', 'kiwi');

the user enters strawberry

strawberry is removed.

To fully explain:

I have a database that stores a list of items separated by a comma. The code pulls in the list based on a user choice where that choice is located. So, if they choose strawberry they code pulls in every entry were strawberry is located then converts that to an array using split(). I want to them remove the user chosen items, for this example strawberry, from the array.

Answer 1

if (in_array('strawberry', $array)) 
{
    unset($array[array_search('strawberry',$array)]);
}

Answer 2

$detils = array('apple', 'orange', 'strawberry', 'blueberry', 'kiwi');
     function remove_embpty($values)
     {
        if($values=='orange')
        {
            $values='any name';
        }
        return $values;
     }
     $detils=array_map('remove_embpty',$detils);
    print_r($detils);

Answer 3

This question has several answers but I want to add something more because when I used unset or array_diff I had several problems to play with the indexes of the new array when the specific element was removed (because the initial index are saved)

I get back to the example :

$array = array('apple', 'orange', 'strawberry', 'blueberry', 'kiwi');
$array_without_strawberries = array_diff($array, array('strawberry'));

or

$array = array('apple', 'orange', 'strawberry', 'blueberry', 'kiwi');
unset($array[array_search('strawberry', $array)]);

If you print the result you will obtain :

foreach ($array_without_strawberries as $data) {
   print_r($data);
}

Result :

> apple
> orange
> blueberry
> kiwi

But the indexes will be saved and so you will access to your element like :

$array_without_strawberries[0] > apple
$array_without_strawberries[1] > orange
$array_without_strawberries[3] > blueberry
$array_without_strawberries[4] > kiwi

And so the final array are not re-indexed. So you need to add after the unset or array_diff:

$array_without_strawberries = array_values($array);

After that your array will have a normal index :

$array_without_strawberries[0] > apple
$array_without_strawberries[1] > orange
$array_without_strawberries[2] > blueberry
$array_without_strawberries[3] > kiwi

Related to this post : Re-Index Array

Hope it will help

Answer 4

<?php 
$array = array("apple", "orange", "strawberry", "blueberry", "kiwi");
$delete = "strawberry";
$index = array_search($delete, $array);
array_splice($array, $index, 1);
var_dump($array);
?>

Answer 5

$delete = "strawberry";

$index = array_search($delete, $array);

array_splice($array, $index, 1);

Answer 6

Use array_search to get the key and remove it with unset if found:

if (($key = array_search('strawberry', $array)) !== false) {
    unset($array[$key]);
}

array_search returns false (null until PHP 4.2.0) if no item has been found.

And if there can be multiple items with the same value, you can use array_keys to get the keys to all items:

foreach (array_keys($array, 'strawberry') as $key) {
    unset($array[$key]);
}