PHP Foreach loop take an additional step forward from within the loop

Question

Basically I have a foreach loop in PHP and I want to:

foreach( $x as $y => $z )  
    // Do some stuff  
    // Get the next values of y,z in the loop  
    // Do some more stuff  

Answer 1

use the continue keyword to skip the rest of this loop and jump back to the start.

Answer 2

It's not practical to do in a foreach.

For non-associative arrays, use for:

for ($x = 0; $x < count($y); $x++)
 {
   echo $y[$x];  // The current element

   if (array_key_exists($x+1, $y))
    echo $y[$x+1]; // The next element

   if (array_key_exists($x+2, $y))
    echo $y[$x+2]; // The element after next

 }

For associative arrays, it's a bit more tricky. This should work:

$keys = array_keys($y); // Get all the keys of $y as an array

for ($x = 0; $x < count($keys); $x++)
 {
   echo $y[$keys[$x]];  // The current element

   if (array_key_exists($x+1, $keys))
    echo $y[$keys[$x+1]]; // The next element

   if (array_key_exists($x+2, $keys))
    echo $y[$keys[$x+2]]; // The element after next

 }

When accessing one of the next elements, make sure though that they exist!

Answer 3

try something like...

for ($i=0, $i<count($x); $i++)
{
    // do stuff with $x[$i]
    // do stuff with $x[$i+1], unless you're on the last element of the array
}

Answer 4

Not sure if you simply want to do just "some stuff" with the first element, only "some more stuff" with the last element, and both "some stuff" and "some more stuff" with every other element. Or if you want to do "some stuff" with the first, third, fifth elements, and "some more stuff" with the second, fouth, sixth elements, etc.

$i = 0;
foreach( $x as $y => $z )   
    if (($i % 2) == 0) {
       // Do some stuff   
   } else {
       // Do some more stuff 
   }
   $i++;
}

Answer 5

Ok, following up on my comment on Pekka's solution, here is one that takes into account the fact that the array might be associative. It's not pretty, but it works. Suggestions on how to improve this are welcomed!

<?php
    $y = array(
        '1'=>'Hello ',
        '3'=>'World ',
        '5'=>'Break? ',
        '9'=>'Yup. '
    );

    $keys = array_keys($y);
    $count = count($y);

    for ($i = 0; $i < $count; $i++) {
        // Current element    
        $index = $keys[$i];
        echo "Current: ".$y[$index];  // The current element

        if (array_key_exists($i+1, $keys)) {
            $index2 = $keys[$i+1];
            echo "Next: ".$y[$index2]; // The next element
        }

       if (array_key_exists($i+2, $keys)) {
            $index3 = $keys[$i+2];
            echo "Nextnext: ".$y[$index3]; // The element after next
        }
     }
?>

Answer 6

reset($arr);
while(list($firstindex,$firstvalue) = each($arr)){
   list($secondindex,$secondvalue) = each($arr);
   //do something with first & second.
}