Move Value in PHP Array to the Beginning of the Array

Question

I have a PHP array similar to this:

0 => \"red\",
1 => \"green\",
2 => \"blue\",
3 => \"yellow\"

I want to move yellow to index

Answer 1

Probably the most straightforward way

array_unshift( $arr, array_pop( $arr ) );

EDIT

Per your comment "how can I take any one subscript from the array and move it to the beginning", my answer above doesn't fully satisfy that request - it only works by moving the last element to the 0 index.

This function, however, does satisfy that request

/**
 * Move array element by index.  Only works with zero-based,
 * contiguously-indexed arrays
 *
 * @param array $array
 * @param integer $from Use NULL when you want to move the last element
 * @param integer $to   New index for moved element. Use NULL to push
 * 
 * @throws Exception
 * 
 * @return array Newly re-ordered array
 */
function moveValueByIndex( array $array, $from=null, $to=null )
{
  if ( null === $from )
  {
    $from = count( $array ) - 1;
  }

  if ( !isset( $array[$from] ) )
  {
    throw new Exception( "Offset $from does not exist" );
  }

  if ( array_keys( $array ) != range( 0, count( $array ) - 1 ) )
  {
    throw new Exception( "Invalid array keys" );
  }

  $value = $array[$from];
  unset( $array[$from] );

  if ( null === $to )
  {
    array_push( $array, $value );
  } else {
    $tail = array_splice( $array, $to );
    array_push( $array, $value );
    $array = array_merge( $array, $tail );
  }

  return $array;
}

And, in usage

$arr = array( 'red', 'green', 'blue', 'yellow' );

echo implode( ',', $arr ); // red,green,blue,yellow

// Move 'blue' to the beginning
$arr = moveValueByIndex( $arr, 2, 0 );

echo implode( ',', $arr ); // blue,red,green,yellow