PHP: Remove the first and last item of the array

Question

Suppose I have this array:

 $array = array(\'10\', \'20\', \'30.30\', \'40\', \'50\');

Questions:

What is the fastest/

Answer 1

array_slice is going to be the fastest since it's a single function call.

You use it like this: array_slice($input, 1, -1);

Make sure that the array has at least 2 items in it before doing this, though.