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I am pulling the latest 3 news articles from my database and I need to access them by the order they were pulled from, so first position in the array, second position and so on to display them in order in random sections of my web page. I came across accessing the array key but that is not working, where am I going wrong? Thanks in advance!
$value = array_slice($blog, 0, 1);
echo $value;

Answer 1

I think you are looking for a foreach loop or something like that:
$blog = array('foo', 'bar', 'cat');
foreach ($blog as $article) {
echo $article;
}
/**
* Gives you:
*
foo
bar
cat
*/
But if you want to do it with functions, you can use array_shift. This will remove the first element from an array and return that:
$article1 = array_shift($blog); // $blog is now `array('bar', 'cat')`
echo $article1; // >> foo
$article2 = array_shift($blog); // $blog is now `array('cat')`
echo $article2; // >> bar
$article3 = array_shift($blog); // $blog is now `array()`
echo $article2; // >> cat
Or if you want to keep the original $blog array, use array pointer functions like current, next, prev, reset and end:
reset($blog);
$article1 = current($blog); // >> foo
$article2 = next($blog); // >> bar
$article3 = next($blog); // >> cat

Answer 2

Use this :
$value = array_shift($blog);
To get second one
$value2 = array_shift($blog);
and third :
$value3 = array_shift($blog);

Answer 3

You have three different ways to accomplish this:
1. Call array_shift($blog) each time you want to get the next value.
$value = array_shift($blog);
Each time you do the array_shift it will return the next entry in the array.
Function array_pop is similar but returns the last entry in the array each time.
2. Simply access each entry of the array using the index
This gives the first entry in the array:
$value = $blog[0]
This gives the second entry in the array:
$value = $blog[1]
This gives the n'th value in the array:
$value = $blog[n-1];
3. Or finally you can simply loop through the array and echo out each entry (may not be suitable if you don't want to sequentially echo out the entries in the same place)
foreach ($blog as $blog_entry) {
echo $blog_entry;
}