PHP foreach loop tutorial

In this tutorial you will learn how to use the foreach loop in PHP.

Step 1 - Foreach basics

The foreach loop is a bit special control structure. Foreach was designed to iterate over an array and you can use it only for array variables.
The syntax is the following:

foreach (array_expression as $value) statement

It means that the foreach loop iterates over an array and in each iteration it copies the actual array value to the $value variable. You can so use it in your statement. A real example looks like this:

Code: 
$test = array(1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10);
 
foreach ($test as $value) {
   echo "$value - ";
}
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The $value is a new variable so if you change it's value then the value in the array will not be changed. If you want to to this you need to use reference variables as follows:

Code: 
// Creat the test array
$test = array(1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10);
 
// Modify the array content as we use reference variable
foreach ($test as &$value) {
   $value = $value*2;
}
 
// Display the array 
foreach ($test as &$value) {
   echo "$value - ";
}
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In the next step you will see how to display an associative array with foreach.

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PHP foreach loop tutorial - Table of contents
Step 1 - Foreach basics
Step 2 - Foreach for associative arrays

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PHP foreach loop tutorial

Step 1 - Foreach basics