Are there any specific PHP functions or techniques that can simplify the process of formatting array data for display in a tabular format?

When displaying array data in a tabular format, it can be cumbersome to manually iterate over the array elements and format them into rows and columns. However, PHP provides a built-in function called `array_column()` that can simplify this process by extracting a single column from a multi-dimensional array. By using this function along with HTML table tags, we can easily format array data into a tabular display. 

<?php
// Sample array data
$data = [
    ['id' => 1, 'name' => 'John Doe', 'age' => 30],
    ['id' => 2, 'name' => 'Jane Smith', 'age' => 25],
    ['id' => 3, 'name' => 'Mike Johnson', 'age' => 35]
];

// Extract column names
$columns = array_keys($data[0]);

// Display table header
echo '<table border="1">';
echo '<tr>';
foreach ($columns as $column) {
    echo '<th>' . $column . '</th>';
}
echo '</tr>';

// Display table data
foreach ($data as $row) {
    echo '<tr>';
    foreach ($row as $value) {
        echo '<td>' . $value . '</td>';
    }
    echo '</tr>';
}

echo '</table>';
?>

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