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PHP

Posted by Vijesh Arora
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Vijesh Arora
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 34 Points

Why we would use empty array?

Most of the time when I see other code, I found they had used empty array, what is the point of the such empty array in php?

1 Answer

Abraham Juliot
Abraham Juliot
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Abraham Juliot
Abraham Juliot
47,353 Points

Arrays are often declared empty and then later assigned data from user input or functions. Think of an empty array as an empty list which may conditionally contain items.