How to remove null values from an array? [duplicate]

Answer 1

You are in a world of trouble now, because it is not too easy to distinguish null from 0 from false from "" from 0.0. But don't worry, it is solvable:

 $result = array_filter( $array, 'strlen' );

Which is horrible by itself, but seems to work.

EDIT:

This is bad advice, because the trick leans on a strange corner case:

• strlen(0) will be strlen("0") -> 1, thus true
• strlen(NULL) will be strlen("")->0, thus false
• strlen("") will be strlen(("")->0, thus false etc.

The way you should do it is something like this:

 $my_array = array(2, "a", null, 2.5, NULL, 0, "", 8);

 function is_notnull($v) {
    return !is_null($v);
  }

 print_r(array_filter($my_array, "is_notnull"));

This is well readable.

Answer 2

simply

$keys=array_keys($yourArray,NULL);
if(!empty($keys))
{
foreach($keys as $key)
{
unset($yourArray[$key]);
}
}
var_dump($yourarray);

Answer 3

You can use array_filter() which will get rid of the null empty values from the array

print_r(array_filter($arr, 'strlen'));

Answer 4

<?php 
$arr = array( 0 => 0, 1=>null, 2=>3, 3=>null); 
foreach ($arr as $key=>$val) {
    if ($val === null)
       unset($arr[$key]);
}
$new_arr = array_values($arr);
print_r($new_arr);
?>

Out put:

Array
(
    [0] => 0
    [1] => 3
)

Answer 5

this will do the trick:

array_filter($arr, static function($var){return $var !== null;} );

Code Example: https://3v4l.org/jtQa2

---

for older versions (php<5.3):

function is_not_null ($var) { return !is_null($var); }
$filtered = array_filter($arr, 'is_not_null');

Code Example: http://3v4l.org/CKrYO

Answer 6

You can just loop through it.

<?php 
foreach ($array as $i=>$row) {
    if ($row === null)
       unset($array[$i]);
}

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If you want to reindex the array to remove gaps between keys, you can just use a new array:

<?php
$array2 = array();
foreach ($array as $row) {
    if ($row !== null)
       $array2[] = $row;
}
$array = $array2;

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