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Oh I see, but you have to admit it looks just like a function (-:
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Oh I see, but you have to admit it looks just like a function (-:

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It's a language construct, just like list($a, $b) = array('valueForA', 'valueForB'); (syntax to set $a to 'valueForA', and $b to 'valueForB');<br />
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-r-
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It's a language construct, just like list($a, $b) = array('valueForA', 'valueForB'); (syntax to set $a to 'valueForA', and $b to 'valueForB');

-r-

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Hi, in a piece of code, what is the array function and what does it do?<br />
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if(!is_array($copy)) $copy = array();
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Hi, in a piece of code, what is the array function and what does it do?

if(!is_array($copy)) $copy = array();

what is the array() function

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