Creating an array with $x elements in PHP

Question

How would I create an array in PHP that has $x empty elements? The $x is unknown and varying value. For example, if I wanted to create an array of 3 elements, I could just do:

$array = array(null,null,null);

However, I don't know what $x is and there could be million elements, I need to do this automatically.

Answer 1

As usual with PHP there's a function for this: array_fill()

Answer 2

You can do it like this:

array_fill(0, $x, 'value')

Answer 3

How about range(), array_pad() or array_fill() or SplFixedArray

Answer 4

In PHP arrays are a dynamic datatype that you can add items to on the fly as well as delete some. So you don’t need to allocate the array upfront.