PHP arrays - Exercises, Practice, Solution

1. $color = array('white', 'green', 'red', 'blue', 'black'); Write a script which will
display the following string.

"The memory of that scene for me is like a frame of film forever frozen at
that moment: the red carpet, the green lawn, the white house, the leaden
sky. The words 'red', 'green' and 'white' will come from $color.”
2. $color = array('white', 'green', 'red'') Write a PHP script which will display the
colors in the following way :
Output :
white, green, red,

 green
 red
 white

3. $Country_City = array(“Ethiopia” =>”Addis Ababa”, "Italy"=>"Rome",

"Luxembourg"=>"Luxembourg", "Belgium"=> "Brussels",
"Denmark"=>"Copenhagen", "Finland"=>"Helsinki", "France" => "Paris",
"Slovakia"=>"Bratislava", "Slovenia"=>"Ljubljana", "Germany" => "Berlin",
"Greece" => "Athens", "Ireland"=>"Dublin", "Netherlands"=>"Amsterdam",
"Portugal"=>"Lisbon", "Spain"=>"Madrid", "Sweden"=>"Stockholm", "United
Kingdom"=>"London", "Cyprus"=>"Nicosia", "Lithuania"=>"Vilnius", "Czech
Republic"=>"Prague", "Estonia"=>"Tallin", "Hungary"=>"Budapest",
"Latvia"=>"Riga", "Malta"=>"Valetta", "Austria" => "Vienna",
"Poland"=>"Warsaw") ;

Create a PHP script which displays the capital and country name from the
above array $Country_City. Sort the list by the capital of the country.

Sample Output :
The capital of Ethiopia is Addis Ababa
The capital of Netherlands is Amsterdam
The capital of Greece is Athens
The capital of Germany is Berlin
4. $x = array(1, 2, 3, 4, 5); Delete an element from the above PHP array. After
deleting the element, integer keys must be normalized.
Sample Output :
array(5) { [0]=> int(1) [1]=> int(2) [2]=> int(3) [3]=> int(4) [4]=> int(5) }
array(4) { [0]=> int(1) [1]=> int(2) [2]=> int(3) [3]=> int(5) }
5. $color = array (4 => 'white', 6 => 'green', 11=> 'red'); Write a PHP script to get
the first element of the above array.
Expected result: white
6. Write a PHP script that inserts a new item in an array in any position.
Expected Output :
Original array :
12345
After inserting '$' the array is :
123$45
7. Write a PHP script to sort the following associative array.
array("Sophia"=>"31","Jacob"=>"41","William"=>"39","Ramesh"=>"40") in
a) ascending order sort by value
b) ascending order sort by Key
c) descending order sorting by Value
d) descending order sorting by Key
8. Write a PHP script to calculate and display average temperature, five lowest
and highest temperatures. Recorded temperatures : “78, 60, 62, 68, 71, 68,
73, 85, 66, 64, 76, 63, 75, 76, 73, 68, 62, 73, 72, 65, 74, 62, 62, 65, 64, 68,
73, 75, 79, 73”

Expected Output :
Average Temperature is : 70.6
List of seven lowest temperatures : 60, 62, 63, 63, 64,
List of seven highest temperatures : 76, 78, 79, 81, 85,

9. Write a PHP program to sort an array of positive integers using the Bead-Sort
Algorithm.
According to Wikipedia "Bead-sort is a natural sorting algorithm, developed by
Joshua J. Arulanandham, Cristian S. Calude and Michael J. Dinneen in 2002.
Both digital and analog hardware implementations of bead sort can achieve a
sorting time of O(n); however, the implementation of this algorithm tends to be
 significantly slower in software and can only be used to sort lists of positive
integers".

Input array : Array ( [0] => 5 [1] => 3 [2] => 1 [3] => 3 [4] => 8 [5] => 7 [6]
=> 4 [7] => 1 [8] => 1 [9] => 3 )
Expected Result : Array ( [0] => 8 [1] => 7 [2] => 5 [3] => 4 [4] => 3 [5] => 3
[6] => 3 [7] => 1 [8] => 1 [9] => 1 )

10. Write a PHP program to merge (by index) the following two arrays.

Sample arrays :
$array1 = array(array(77, 87), array(23, 45));
$array2 = array("w3resource", "com");
Expected Output :
Array
(
[0] => Array
(
[0] => w3resource
[1] => 77
[2] => 87
)
[1] => Array
(
[0] => com
[1] => 23
[2] => 45
)
)
11. Write a PHP function to change the following array's all values to upper or
lower case.

Sample arrays :
$Color = array('A' => 'Blue', 'B' => 'Green', 'c' => 'Red');
Expected Output :
Values are in lower case.
Array ( [A] => blue [B] => green [c] => red )
Values are in upper case.
Array ( [A] => BLUE [B] => GREEN [c] => RED )
12. Write a PHP script which displays all the numbers between 200 and 250
that are divisible by 4.

Note : Do not use any PHP control statement.

Expected Output :
200,204,208,212,216,220,224,228,232,236,240,244,248

13. Write a PHP script to get the shortest/longest string length from an array.

Sample arrays : ("abcd","abc","de","hjjj","g","wer")

Expected Output : The shortest array length is 1. The longest array length
is 4.

14. Write a PHP script to generate unique random numbers within a range.

Sample Range : (11, 20)

Sample Output : 17 16 13 20 14 19 18 15 11 12

15. Write a PHP script to get the largest key in an array.

16. Write a PHP function that returns the lowest integer that is not 0.
17. Write a PHP function to floor decimal numbers with precision. Note:
Accept three parameters number, precision, and $separator

Sample Data : 1.155, 2, "."

100.25781, 4, "."
-2.9636, 3, "."

Expected Output :
1.15
100.2578
-2.964

18. Write a PHP script to print "second" and Red from the following array.

Sample Data :
$color = array ( "color" => array ( "a" => "Red", "b" => "Green", "c" =>
"White"),
"numbers" => array ( 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 ),
"holes" => array ( "First", 5 => "Second", "Third"));
19. Write a PHP script to sort the following array by the day (page_id) and
username.
20. Write a PHP function to sort entity letters.
21. Write a PHP function to shuffle an associative array, preserving key, value
pairs.
22. Write a PHP function to generate a random password (contains
uppercase, lowercase, numeric and other) using shuffle() function.

23. Write a PHP script to sort an array in reverse order (highest to lowest).
24. Write a PHP program to generate an array with a range taken from a
string.
25. Write a PHP program to create a letter range with arbitrary length.
26. rite a PHP program to get the index of the highest value in an associative
array.
27. Write a PHP function to search a specified value within the values of an
associative array.
28. Write a PHP program to sort an associative array (alphanumeric with case-
sensitive data) by values.
29. Write a PHP script to lower-case and upper-case, all elements in an array.
30. Write a PHP script to count the total number of times a specific value
appears in an array.
31. Write a PHP function to create a multidimensional unique array for any
single key index.
32. Write a PHP program to remove duplicate values from an array which
contains only strings or only integers.
33. Write a PHP program to get a sorted array without preserving the keys.
34. Write a PHP program to identify the email addresses which are not unique.
35. Write a PHP script to merge two commas separated lists with unique value
only.
36. Write a PHP a function to remove a specified, duplicate entry from an
array.
37. Write a PHP function to check whether all array values are strings or not.
38. Write a PHP function to get an array with the first key and value.
39. Write a PHP function to set union of two arrays.
40. Write a PHP script to get an array containing all the entries of an array
which have the keys that are present in another array.
 Test Data : 1st array : ('c1' => 'Red', 'c2' => 'Green', 'c3' => 'White', c4 =>
'Black')
2nd array : ('c2', 'c4')
Output :
Array
(
[c2] => Green
[c4] => Black
)
41. Write a PHP program to filter out some elements with certain key-names.
Test Data :
1st array : ('c1' => 'Red', 'c2' => 'Green', 'c3' => 'White', c4 => 'Black')
2nd array : ('c2', 'c4')
Output :
Array
(
[c1] => Red
[c3] => White
)

42. Write a PHP function to convert a string to an array (trimming every line
and remove empty lines).

43. Write a PHP script to create a two-dimensional array (4x4), initialized to

10.

44. Write a PHP function to compares two multidimensional arrays and returns
the difference.

45. Write a PHP script to combine (using one array for keys and another for its
values) the following two arrays.
('x', 'y', 'y'), (10, 20, 30)
46. Write a PHP program to create a range like the following array.
Array
(
[20] => 2
[21] => 3
[22] => 4
[23] => 5
[24] => 6
[25] => 7
)