Arrays: array_shift($arr) or $arr[0]?

Question

Which one would you use?

Basically I only want to get the 1st element from a array, that\'s it.

Answer 1

You would use $arr[ 0 ]; array_shift removes the first element from the array.

EDIT

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This answer is actually somewhere between incomplete and plain out wrong but, because the comments of the two jon's I think that it should actually stay up so that others can see that discourse.

The right answer:

• reset is the method to return the first defined index of the array. Even in non-associative arrays, this may not be the 0 index.
• array_shift will remove and return the value which is found at reset

The OP made the assumption that $arr[0] is the first index is not accurate in that particular context.