RE: [PHP] Possible foreach bug; seeking advice to isolate the problem

> -----Original Message----- > From: Jonathan Sachs [mailto:081012@jhsachs.com] > Sent: 20 October 2010 04:48 > To: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: [PHP] Possible foreach bug; seeking advice to isolate the > problem > > I've got a script which originally contained the following piece of > code: > > foreach ( $objs as $obj ) { > do_some_stuff($obj); > } > > When I tested it, I found that on every iteration of the loop the > last > element of $objs was assigned the value of the current element. I > was > able to step through the loop and watch this happening, element by > element. All the other suggestions I've seen on this are essentially correct -- before the foreach runs, something somewhere has set $obj to be a reference to the last element of the array. It really doesn't matter whether you can find the culprit for this or not -- the solution is simply to put an unset($obj) immediately before the foreach statement -- this will break the reference (without destroying anything but $obj!) and make the foreach behave exactly as you want. Cheers! Mike -- Mike Ford, Electronic Information Developer, Libraries and Learning Innovation, Leeds Metropolitan University, C507 City Campus, Woodhouse Lane, LEEDS,  LS1 3HE,  United Kingdom Email: m.ford@leedsmet.ac.uk Tel: +44 113 812 4730 To view the terms under which this email is distributed, please go to http://disclaimer.leedsmet.ac.uk/email.htm