PHP Remove First Element from an Array

How to Remove first element of an array using PHP

In this tutorial we will learn how to remove first element of an array using PHP, we can use PHP array_shift() function to remove first value or element of an array.

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PHP array_shift() function

PHP array_shift() function removes the first element of array and returns the first value as a result.

We can also use array_shift() function to get first value of array.

array_shift() function returns NULL if array is empty.

<?php
$array = array("HTML", "CSS", "JavaScript", "PHP");
print_r($array);
echo "<br />";
$firstElement = array_shift($array);
print_r($array); // array without first element
?>

The above code will remove the first element of array.

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