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

This function will allow you to move an element to an arbitrary position within the array, while leaving the rest of the array untouched:

function array_reorder($array, $oldIndex, $newIndex) {
    array_splice(
        $array,
        $newIndex,
        count($array),
        array_merge(
            array_splice($array, $oldIndex, 1),
            array_slice($array, $newIndex, count($array))
        )
    );
    return $array;
}

Hopefully the usage is fairly obvious, so this:

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

var_dump(
    array_reorder($array, 3, 0),
    array_reorder($array, 0, 3),
    array_reorder($array, 1, 3),
    array_reorder($array, 2, 0)
);

Will output this:

array(4) {
  [0]=>
  string(6) "yellow"
  [1]=>
  string(3) "red"
  [2]=>
  string(5) "green"
  [3]=>
  string(4) "blue"
}
array(4) {
  [0]=>
  string(5) "green"
  [1]=>
  string(4) "blue"
  [2]=>
  string(6) "yellow"
  [3]=>
  string(3) "red"
}
array(4) {
  [0]=>
  string(3) "red"
  [1]=>
  string(4) "blue"
  [2]=>
  string(6) "yellow"
  [3]=>
  string(5) "green"
}
array(4) {
  [0]=>
  string(4) "blue"
  [1]=>
  string(3) "red"
  [2]=>
  string(5) "green"
  [3]=>
  string(6) "yellow"
}