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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [PATCH] New functions: array_key_index(), array_first(),
 array_last()
From: antony@zend.com (Antony Dovgal)

On 01/05/2007 08:49 AM, John Bafford wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Attached is a patch and corresponding test file I would like to  
> submit for inclusion in PHP.  I would like this patch to be included  
> in PHP 5.2.1, as it is entirely new code (and thus shouldn't cause  
> regressions), but as RC2 was just released earlier today, I  
> understand if it must wait until PHP 5.2.2.
> 
> This patch implements three new functions, as described below.
> 
> mixed array_key_index(array input, int index [, mixed value])
> 	Return the array's index'th key (and optionally, value)
> 
> mixed array_first(array input [, mixed value])
> 	Return the array's first key (and optionally, value)
> 	This is equivalent to array_key_index($input, 0 [, $value]);
> 
> mixed array_last(array input [, mixed value])
> 	Return the array's last key (and optionally, value)
> 	This is equivalent to array_key_index($input, -1 [, $value]);

-1
Implementing these functions _in_ PHP can't take more than a minute.

-- 
Wbr, 
Antony Dovgal