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Etienne Kneuss has posted about a new part of the Standard PHP Library that creates arrays that are up to thirty percent faster than normal methods - SplFastArray. read more

Antony got the idea to implement a C-like array wrapper in SPL: SplFastArray. The main advantage of that class is performance, it's indeed faster than PHP arrays. How so? No free lunch: The speedup comes from the fact that non-numeric indexes are not allowed and that the array is of fixed size (which means no hashing and continuous memory storage).

There's been some talk floating around about a proposed additional syntax for creating arrays in PHP. Brian Moon sums it up nicely in a new post to his blog. read more

Harry Roberts has a quick post to his blog today showing a method he's come up with to handle PHP arrays from inside of SQL statements (a port of the JsonSQL library to PHP). read more

Arrays are a set of variables of the same data type. If you’ve ever programmed before you should be knowing about it. but PHP takes arrays to the next level by providing so many useful in-built features to operate on them, let’s see some of them.

If you’ve been developing with PHP for a while, you’ve probably come across this situation in the past: <?php foreach ($somearray as &$element) { $element = some_function($element); } It’s a common sight: taking an array and running (well, walking) its elements through a particular function.

PHP Arrays My very first encounter with arrays were very traumatic, I was certain I’ve just met my first programming nightmare. You see, I was asked to report on arrays, and I must say, I didn’t understand a word I was saying. But that was ancient history. Now, I’m such an array fanatic, I use arrays whenever possible.

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