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PHP Tutorial : List function

Jun 16, 2009 Useful PHP

Beeing surprised that I didn’t write here about this “cute” php function called list(). I like it a lot, it’s like the extract() function in some way if you remember.

The list() php function will assign variables in one shot to strings from arrays.

<?php
//here's the php array

$countingArray = array(1,2,3);
//here, the list function will convert 1 to $one variable, 2 to $two and 3 to $three

list("one", "two", "three") = $countingArray;

print "I am counting $one, errr I think it comes $two, and lastly $three";
//should print I am counting 1, err....comes 2 and lastly 3

?>

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