Shorter syntax for this array insertion

Question

Is there a better syntax for this array insertion in PHP? The array already has items and I'm adding items to it. I hate that I have to repeat the array name multiple times like this

$somearray[] = "new item 1"; 
$somearray[] = "new item 2"; 
$somearray[] = "new item 3"; 

Answer 1

array_push($somearray, "new item 1", "new item 2", "new item 3");

Answer 2

how about this?

array_merge($somearray, array('new item 1', 'new item 2', 'new item 3'));

Answer 3

I like this:

$array = array('new item 1', 'new item 2', 'new item 3');

foreach($array as $item) {
   $somearray[] = $item;
}