How to get the value of the last key in an array
6 Oct2008
Very often I find myself wanting to get only the value of the last key in an array. I used to do
sizeof($array);
to find out the number of total elements, so I knew the position of the last value. Today I ran into a much easier way to select it.
With the following line of code you can set the desired last value to a variable:
$variable = array_pop($array);
For more info and some useful examples check out the PHP manual.
2 Responses to How to get the value of the last key in an array
Ruud Altenburg
August 27th, 2010 at 13:12
This is an option only if you want to immediately delete that item from the array. Why not use end() instead?
Coen Coppens
August 29th, 2010 at 22:23
Very nice addition to the post! I wasn’t aware of the existence of this function. It’s definitely a better way of getting the last value. Thank you for your reply (-: