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array_fill

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array_fillLlena un array con valores

Descripción

array_fill(int $start_index, int $num, mixed $value): array

Llena un array con num entradas del valor del parámetro value, las keys inician en el parámetro start_index.

Parámetros

start_index

El primer índice del array retornado.

Si start_index es negativo, el primer índice del array retornado será start_index y los siguientes indices comenzarán desde cero (ver ejemplo).

num

Número de elementos a insertar. Debe ser mayor o igual que cero.

value

Valor a usar para el llenado.

Valores devueltos

Retorna el array llenado.

Errores/Excepciones

Arroja un E_WARNING si num es menor que cero.

Historial de cambios

Versión Descripción
5.6.0 num ahora puede ser cero. Anteriormente, se requería que num fuera maoyor que cero.

Ejemplos

Ejemplo #1 Ejemplo de array_fill()

<?php
$a
= array_fill(5, 6, 'banana');
$b = array_fill(-2, 4, 'pear');
print_r($a);
print_r($b);
?>

El resultado del ejemplo sería:

Array
(
    [5]  => banana
    [6]  => banana
    [7]  => banana
    [8]  => banana
    [9]  => banana
    [10] => banana
)
Array
(
    [-2] => pear
    [0] => pear
    [1] => pear
    [2] => pear
)

Notas

Ver también la sección Arrays del manual para una explicación detallada de las claves negativas.

Ver también

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User Contributed Notes 7 notes

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csst0266 at cs dot uoi dot gr
19 years ago
This is what I recently did to quickly create a two dimensional array (10x10), initialized to 0:

<?php
$a
= array_fill(0, 10, array_fill(0, 10, 0));
?>

This should work for as many dimensions as you want, each time passing to array_fill() (as the 3rd argument) another array_fill() function.
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anatoliy at ukhvanovy dot name
9 years ago
If you need negative indices:
<?php
$b
= array_fill(-2, 4, 'pear');//this is not what we want
$c = array_fill_keys(range(-2,1),'pear');//these are negative indices
print_r($b);
print_r($c);
?>
Here is result of the code above:
Array
(
[-2] => pear
[0] => pear
[1] => pear
[2] => pear
)
Array
(
[-2] => pear
[-1] => pear
[0] => pear
[1] => pear
)
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user at NOSPAM dot example dot com
2 years ago
As of PHP 8.0 the example code

<?php
$b
= array_fill(-2, 4, 'pear');
print_r($b);
?>

now returns

Array
(
[-2] => pear
[-1] => pear
[0] => pear
[1] => pear
)

See https://wiki.php.net/rfc/negative_array_index and https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/3772
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34
mchljnk at NOSPAM dot gmail dot com
10 years ago
Using objects with array_fill may cause unexpected results. Consider the following:

<?php
class Foo {
public
$bar = "banana";
}

//fill an array with objects
$array = array_fill(0, 2, new Foo());

var_dump($array);
/*
array(2) {
[0]=>
object(Foo)#1 (1) {
["bar"]=>
string(6) "banana"
}
[1]=>
object(Foo)#1 (1) {
["bar"]=>
string(6) "banana"
}
} */

//now we change the attribute of the object stored in index 0
//this actually changes the attribute for EACH object in the ENTIRE array
$array[0]->bar = "apple";

var_dump($array);
/*
array(2) {
[0]=>
object(Foo)#1 (1) {
["bar"]=>
string(5) "apple"
}
[1]=>
object(Foo)#1 (1) {
["bar"]=>
string(5) "apple"
}
}
*/
?>

Objects are filled in the array BY REFERENCE. They are not copied for each element in the array.
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miguelxpain at gmail dot com
12 years ago
I made this function named "array_getMax" that returns te maximum value and index, from array:

<?php
//using array_search_all by helenadeus at gmail dot com

function array_search_all($needle, $haystack)
{
#array_search_match($needle, $haystack) returns all the keys of the values that match $needle in $haystack

foreach ($haystack as $k=>$v) {

if(
$haystack[$k]==$needle){

$array[] = $k;
}
}
return (
$array);


}

function
array_getMax($array){

$conteo=array_count_values($array);

if(
count($conteo)==1 ){//returns full array when all values are the same.
return $array;
}

arsort($array);

//$antValue=null;
$maxValue=null;
$keyValue=null;
foreach(
$array as $key=>$value){
if(
$maxValue==null){
$maxValue=$value;
$keyValue=$key;
break;
}
}

$resultSearch=array_search_all($maxValue, $array);

return
array_fill_keys($resultSearch, $maxValue);


}

//example
$arreglo=array('e1'=>99,'e2'=>'99','e3'=>1,'e4'=>1,'e5'=>98);

var_dump(array_getMax($arreglo));

//output
/*
array(2) {
["e1"]=>
int(99)
["e2"]=>
int(99)
}
*/
?>

I hope some one find this usefull
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Hayley Watson
6 years ago
Fill missing keys in a (numerically-indexed) array with a default value

<?php

function fill_missing_keys($array, $default = null, $atleast = 0)
{
return
$array + array_fill(0, max($atleast, max(array_keys($array))), $default);
}

?>
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Anonymous
21 years ago
array_fill() cannot be used to setup only missing keys in an array. This may be necessary for example before using implode() on a sparse filled array.
The solution is to use this function:

<?php
function array_setkeys(&$array, $fill = NULL) {
$indexmax = -1;
for (
end($array); $key = key($array); prev($array)) {
if (
$key > $indexmax)
$indexmax = $key;
}
for (
$i = 0; $i <= $indexmax; $i++) {
if (!isset(
$array[$i]))
$array[$i] = $fill;
}
ksort($array);
}
?>

This is usefull in some situations where you don't know which key index was filled and you want to preserve the association between a positioned field in an imploded array and the key index when exploding it.
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