Laravel Array Helper Function: array_forget

forget(&$array, $keys)

The forget helper method removes items from the given $array. The specified keys are express in dot notation.

Assuming an array is defined as follows:

 1<?php
 2 
 3use Illuminate\Support\Arr;
 4 
 5$anArray = [
 6    'person' => [
 7        'first_name' => 'Jane',
 8        'last_name'  => 'Doe'
 9    ]
10];

We could remove the first_name value like so:

1<?php
2 
3Arr::($anArray, 'person.first_name');

Which would leave the array as follows:

1<?php
2 
3array(1) {
4    ["person"] array(1) {
5        ["last_name"] "Doe"
6    }
7}

Removing multiple items at once is as simple as passing an array as the second argument:

1<?php
2 
3Arr::forget($anArray, ['person.first_name', 'person.last_name']);

#array_forget(&$array, $keys)

The array_forget function is a shortcut to calling Arr::forget. This function is declared in the global namespace.

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