Return all array elements except for a given key

Question

Simple one, I was just wondering if there is a clean and eloquent way of returning all values from an associative array that do not match a given key(s)?

$array = array('alpha' => 'apple', 'beta' => 'banana', 'gamma' => 'guava');  $alphaAndGamma = arrayExclude($array, array('alpha')); $onlyBeta      = arrayExclude($array, array('alpha', 'gamma'));  function arrayExclude($array, Array $excludeKeys){     foreach($array as $key => $value){         if(!in_array($key, $excludeKeys)){             $return[$key] = $value;         }     }     return $return; } 

This is what I'm (going to be) using, however, are there cleaner implementations, something I missed in the manual perhaps?

Answer 1

Although, this question is too old and there are several answer are there for this question, but I am posting a solution that might be useful to someone.

You may get the all array elements from provided input except the certain keys you've defined to exclude using:

$result = array_diff_key($input, array_flip(["SomeKey1", "SomeKey2", "SomeKey3"])); 

This will exclude the elements from $input array having keys SomeKey1, SomeKey2 and SomeKey3 and return all others into $result variable.