Efficiency of using foreach loops to clear a PHP array’s values

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Like Zack said in the comments below you are able to simply re-instantiate it using

$foo = array(); // $foo is still here

If you want something more powerful use unset since it also will clear $foo from the symbol table, if you need the array later on just instantiate it again.

unset($foo); // $foo is gone
$foo = array(); // $foo is here again

If we are talking about very large tables I’d probably recommend

$foo = null; 
unset($foo);

since that also would clear the memory a bit better. That behavior (GC) is however not very constant and may change over PHP versions. Bear in mind that re-instantiating a structure is not the same as emptying it.

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