As suggested on php-dev, array_fill() is probably a better name for this

function.

NEWS

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ PHP 4.0                                                                    NEWS
 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 ?? ??? 200?, Version 4.2.0-dev
 - Added session_cache_expire() function. (patch from anuradha@gnu.org)
-- Add array_init() function (Rasmus)
+- Add array_fill() function (Rasmus)
 - Hide Authorization header from phpinfo() output in safe_mode (Rasmus)
 - Re-instated safe-mode realm mangling (Rasmus)
 - Fixed a bug in preg_replace() that would change the type of the replacement

ext/standard/array.c

@@ -1325,9 +1325,9 @@ PHP_FUNCTION(compact)
 }
 /* }}} */
 
-/* {{{ proto array array_init(int start_key, int num, mixed val)
+/* {{{ proto array array_fill(int start_key, int num, mixed val)
    Create an array containing num elements starting with index start_key each initialized to val */
-PHP_FUNCTION(array_init)
+PHP_FUNCTION(array_fill)
 {
 	zval **start_key, **num, **val, *newval;
 	long i;

ext/standard/basic_functions.c

@@ -755,7 +755,7 @@ function_entry basic_functions[] = {
 	PHP_FE(array_search,													NULL)
 	PHP_FE(extract,															NULL)
 	PHP_FE(compact,															NULL)
-	PHP_FE(array_init,														NULL)
+	PHP_FE(array_fill,														NULL)
 	PHP_FE(range,															NULL)
 	PHP_FE(array_multisort,													NULL)
 	PHP_FE(array_push,				first_arg_force_ref)

ext/standard/php_array.h

@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ PHP_FUNCTION(in_array);
 PHP_FUNCTION(array_search);
 PHP_FUNCTION(extract);
 PHP_FUNCTION(compact);
-PHP_FUNCTION(array_init);
+PHP_FUNCTION(array_fill);
 PHP_FUNCTION(range);
 PHP_FUNCTION(shuffle);
 PHP_FUNCTION(array_multisort);