Re: PHP 4.0 Bug #9794: array_keys resets the array pointer and can not be used when looping

On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Stig Venaas wrote: > It seems like this is a common problem, I think perhaps most of the > PHP code (the C code) could be made cleaner if the Zend API separated > pointers from the array structure. So that one could create a pointer > and pass it as an argument to Zend hash functions, or something like > that. It could be useful to have several pointers at once. One other > option could be to have a pointer stack per hash, with two hash > functions for pushing and popping the current pointer on/off the > stack. All this is already possible and has existed in Zend since exactly 1 year ago when I put it in... Extension authors can use *_ex versions of hash functions and supply their own HashPosition parameter. -Andrei Documentation is worth it just to be able to answer all your mail with 'RTFM'. -- Alan Cox