Get all elements in array besides the first one.. ? (php)

$arr = array(1,2,3,4,5);$all_but_the_first_element_array = array_slice($arr, 1);

There are multiple ways of approaching this problem.

The first solution is to use a flag boolean to indicate the first element and proceed in your foreach

$firstElement = true;foreach($array as $key => $val) {  if($firstElement) {    $firstElement = false;  } else {    echo "$key => $val\n";  }}

If your elements are naturally numerically indexed, you do not need the boolean flag, you can simply check if the key is 0.

foreach($array as $key => $val) {  if($key === 0) continue;        echo "$key => $val\n";}

The second way is to cheat your way into a naturally numerically indexed array if it isn't already. I will use array_keys() to get a naturally numerically indexed array of keys and loop it.

$keys = array_keys($array);foreach($keys as $index => $key) {  if($index === 0) continue;     $val = $array[$key];  echo "$key => $val\n";}

The third way is to use the array internal pointer to skip the first element and then continue in a loop by using reset(), next(), list(), and each(). Performance and resource-wise, this is the best option. Maintainability suffers greatly though.

reset($array); // Reset pointer to 0next($array);  // Advance pointer to 1while (list($key, $val) = each($array)) {  echo "$key => $val\n";}  

If you don't mind losing the first element of the array, you can array_shift() it.

array_shift($array);foreach($array as $key => $val) {  echo "$key => $val\n";}

You can also array_slice() the array. I'm also using count() in order to be able to set the preserve_keys parameter to true.

$sliced = array_slice($array, 1, count($array)-1, true);foreach($sliced as $key => $val) {  echo "$key => $val\n";}

array_shift()

http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.array-shift.php

example used in the site:

<?php$stack = array("orange", "banana", "apple", "raspberry");$fruit = array_shift($stack);print_r($stack);?> 

The above example will output:

Array(    [0] => banana    [1] => apple    [2] => raspberry)

**remember that the pointer to the array is reset (new value) after the shift