<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >array_chunk</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="PHP Manual" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Array Functions" HREF="ref.array.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="array_change_key_case" HREF="function.array-change-key-case.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="array_count_values" HREF="function.array-count-values.html"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="refentry" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation 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-change-key-case.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.array-count-values.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.array-chunk" ></A >array_chunk</H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN7242" ></A ><P > (PHP 4 >= 4.2.0)</P >array_chunk -- Split an array into chunks</DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN7245" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 >array <B CLASS="methodname" >array_chunk</B > ( array input, int size [, bool preserve_keys])<BR ></BR ><P > <B CLASS="function" >array_chunk()</B > splits the array into several arrays with <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >size</I ></TT > values in them. You may also have an array with less values at the end. You get the arrays as members of a multidimensional array indexed with numbers starting from zero. </P ><P > By setting the optional <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >preserve_keys</I ></TT > parameter to <TT CLASS="constant" ><B >TRUE</B ></TT >, you can force PHP to preserve the original keys from the input array. If you specify <TT CLASS="constant" ><B >FALSE</B ></TT > new number indices will be used in each resulting array with indices starting from zero. The default is <TT CLASS="constant" ><B >FALSE</B ></TT >. </P ><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" CLASS="EXAMPLE" ><TR ><TD ><DIV CLASS="example" ><A NAME="AEN7267" ></A ><P ><B >Example 1. <B CLASS="function" >array_chunk()</B > example</B ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="php" >$input_array = array('a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e'); print_r(array_chunk($input_array, 2)); print_r(array_chunk($input_array, 2, TRUE));</PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P > The printout of the above program will be: <TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="screen" >Array ( [0] => Array ( [0] => a [1] => b ) [1] => Array ( [0] => c [1] => d ) [2] => Array ( [0] => e ) ) Array ( [0] => Array ( [0] => a [1] => b ) [1] => Array ( [2] => c [3] => d ) [2] => Array ( [4] => e ) )</PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE > </P ></DIV ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.array-change-key-case.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.array-count-values.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >array_change_key_case</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.array.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >array_count_values</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >