How do I move an array element with a known key to the end of an array in PHP?

问题

Having a brain freeze over a fairly trivial problem. If I start with an array like this:

$my_array = array(
                  'monkey'  => array(...),
                  'giraffe' => array(...),
                  'lion'    => array(...)
);

...and new elements might get added with different keys but always an array value. Now I can be sure the first element is always going to have the key 'monkey' but I can't be sure of any of the other keys.

When I've finished filling the array I want to move the known element 'monkey' to the end of the array without disturbing the order of the other elements. What is the most efficient way to do this?

Every way I can think of seems a bit clunky and I feel like I'm missing something obvious.

回答1:

The only way I can think to do this is to remove it then add it:

$v = $my_array['monkey'];
unset($my_array['monkey']);
$my_array['monkey'] = $v;

回答2:

array_shift is probably less efficient than unsetting the index, but it works:

$my_array = array('monkey' => 1, 'giraffe' => 2, 'lion' => 3);
$my_array['monkey'] = array_shift($my_array);
print_r($my_array);

Another alternative is with a callback and uksort:

uksort($my_array, create_function('$x,$y','return ($y === "monkey") ? -1 : 1;'));

You will want to use a proper lambda if you are using PHP5.3+ or just define the function as a global function regularly.

回答3:

I really like @Gordon's answer above for it's elegance as a one liner, but it only works if the key is at the beginning. Here's another one liner that will work for a key in any position:

$arr = array('monkey' => 1, 'giraffe' => 2, 'lion' => 3);
$arr += array_splice($arr,array_search('giraffe',array_keys($arr)),1);

EDIT: Beware, this fails with numeric keys.

回答4:

You can implement some basic calculus and get a universal function for moving array element from one position to the other.

For PHP it looks like this:

function magicFunction ($targetArray, $indexFrom, $indexTo) { 
    $targetElement = $targetArray[$indexFrom]; 
    $magicIncrement = ($indexTo - $indexFrom) / abs ($indexTo - $indexFrom); 

    for ($Element = $indexFrom; $Element != $indexTo; $Element += $magicIncrement){ 
        $targetArray[$Element] = $targetArray[$Element + $magicIncrement]; 
    } 

    $targetArray[$indexTo] = $targetElement; 
}

Check out "moving array elements" at "gloommatter" for detailed explanation.

http://www.gloommatter.com/DDesign/programming/moving-any-array-elements-universal-function.html

回答5:

Contributing to the accepted reply - for the element not to be inserted into the same position, but to be placed at the end of the array:

$v = $my_array['monkey'];
unset($my_array['monkey']);

instead of:

$my_array['monkey'] = $v;

use:

array_push($my_array, $v);

来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2359652/how-do-i-move-an-array-element-with-a-known-key-to-the-end-of-an-array-in-php