Delete items from array and later get back them in new array

Question

I have this code:

$hackers = array ('Alan Kay', 'Peter Norvig', 'Linus Trovalds', 'Larry Page');

I want to delete 1st two items and later want to get back just deleted items in an array

Answer 1

Use array_splice(). It returns an array of the elements that it removed:

$first_two = array_splice($hackers, 0, 2);