<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >array_shift</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.44"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="PHP Manual" HREF="manual.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Array functions" HREF="ref.array.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="array_reverse" HREF="function.array-reverse.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="array_slice" HREF="function.array-slice.html"></HEAD ><BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >PHP Manual</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.array-reverse.html" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.array-slice.html" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.array-shift" >array_shift</A ></H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN3664" ></A >array_shift -- Pop an element off the beginning of array </DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN3667" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 ><DIV CLASS="funcsynopsis" ><P ></P ><CODE CLASS="FUNCDEF" >mixed array_shift</CODE >(array array);<P ></P ></DIV ><P > <B CLASS="function" >array_shift()</B > shifts the first value of the <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >array</I ></TT > off and returns it, shortening the <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >array</I ></TT > by one element and moving everything down. </P ><P > <TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" CLASS="EXAMPLE" ><TR ><TD ><DIV CLASS="example" ><P ><B >Example 1. <B CLASS="function" >array_shift()</B > example</B ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" WIDTH="100%" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="programlisting" > 1 2 $args = array ("-v", "-f"); 3 $opt = array_shift ($args); 4 </PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></TD ></TR ></TABLE > This would result in $args having one element "-f" left, and $opt being "-v". </P ><P > See also <A HREF="function.array-unshift.html" ><B CLASS="function" >array_unshift()</B ></A >, <A HREF="function.array-push.html" ><B CLASS="function" >array_push()</B ></A >, and <A HREF="function.array-pop.html" ><B CLASS="function" >array_pop()</B ></A >. <DIV CLASS="note" ><BLOCKQUOTE CLASS="note" ><P ><B >Note: </B > This function was added in PHP 4.0. </P ></BLOCKQUOTE ></DIV > </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.array-reverse.html" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="manual.html" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.array-slice.html" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >array_reverse</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.array.html" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >array_slice</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >