I was wondering in how many ways can we iterate through an array in PHP. So, I figured out a few, here's it... Our Array, which we will be iterating on, PHP: $arr = array('PHP','Perl', 'JavaScript','AJAX', 'Python','ASP', 'C#'); 1. Using a simple for loop PHP: // using for loop for($i=0;$i<count($arr);$i++) { print("$arr[$i]\n"); } 2. Using foreach PHP: // using foreach foreach($arr as $val) { print("$val\n"); } 3. Using a while loop PHP: // using while loop $i=0; while($val=$arr[$i++]) { print("$val\n"); } 4. Using the array_walk function PHP: // using array_walk function function print_item($item,$key) { print("$item\n"); } array_walk($arr,'print_item'); 5. Using an user function PHP: // using a function, and recursively calling it function print_recurse(&$a) { printf("%s\n",array_pop($a)); print_recurse($a); } print_recurse($arr)
Sorry for the bug which I overlooked, the function will run into infinite recursion, so the correct one should look like this. PHP: // using a function, and recursively calling it function print_recurse(&$a) { printf("%s\n",array_pop($a)); // check whether array has any elements, or else it'll become an infinite recursion if(count($a)>0) print_recurse($a); } print_recurse($arr);