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>    (PHP 3, PHP 4 )</P
>min&nbsp;--&nbsp;Find lowest value</DIV
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>number <B
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>&#13;     <B
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>&#13;     In the first variant, you need at least two parameters
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$a = 4; 
$b = 9; 
$c = 3;
$arr = array(99, 34, 11);

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// case of failure (a variable may not be set)
if (!$min_value = @min($a, $b, $c)) {
    echo "Could not get min value, please try again.";
} else {
    echo "min value is $min_value";
}

print min($arr);  // 11

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