I want to get an array composed of the first 4 rows of the original array $arr,
how to do it in PHP?
array_search() perhaps.... but that would depend entirely on what you needed to do, and is an entirely different question$output = array_slice($arr, 0, 1, true); solved my issue and preserves the keys also. Thanks.Check this out.. this should help
<?php
$input = array("a", "b", "c", "d", "e");
$output = array_slice($input, 2); // returns "c", "d", and "e"
$output = array_slice($input, -2, 1); // returns "d"
$output = array_slice($input, 0, 3); // returns "a", "b", and "c"
// note the differences in the array keys
print_r(array_slice($input, 2, -1));
print_r(array_slice($input, 2, -1, true));
?>