Array echo 'foreach' question

Hey Jen,

I could be wrong, but the foreach loop in php is shorthand for a regular for loop. It could also be known as an enhanced for loop. For arrays, it figures out the count of the array, and resets the array's pointer to the beginning of the array. So if you had an array of flavors:

$flavors = array('vanilla', 'chocolate', 'strawberry', 'rocky road');

The for each loop will count that there are 4 values in the array and iterate through the elements of the array.

foreach($flavors as $flavor)

assigns each elements into the $flavor variable after each pass.
This is what the foreach loop is basically doing:

 for($i = 0; $i < count($flavors); $i++) {

$flavor = $flavors[$i];
echo $flavor;
}

Here is a link to the foreach documentation:

http://php.net/manual/en/control-structures.foreach.php

Hope this also helps!

Hey Jen,

It's the foreach command that handles the looping. In this code example ...

$flavors = array('vanilla', 'chocolate', 'strawberry', 'rocky road');
foreach ($flavors as $flavor) {

    // some code to be executed
    // for each element in the array

}

... the foreach command tells PHP to go through the $flavors array one element at a time and for each of them execute the block of code inside the curly brackets.

Does that make sense?

Thank you Mike and Randy! Duh, It was late when I did the video & challenge. It was mentioned in one of the videos come to think of it.