Re: New syntax for multidimensional array loop with foreach

On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 1:36 AM, Pierre du Plessis <pierre@pcservice.co.za>wrote: > On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 7:29 PM, Tjerk Anne Meesters <datibbaw@php.net>wrote: > >> On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 1:13 AM, Pierre du Plessis >> <pierre@pcservice.co.za>wrote: >> >> > On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 6:14 PM, Johannes Schlüter >> > <johannes@schlueters.de>wrote: >> > >> > > On Thu, 2013-06-27 at 16:58 +0200, Nikita Popov wrote: >> > > > On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 4:10 PM, Christian Stoller < >> stoller@leonex.de >> > > >wrote: >> > > > >> > > > > The new syntax could make it shorter and faster to write... but >> maybe >> > > it's >> > > > > a bit too confusing? >> > > > > >> > > > > $count = 0; >> > > > > foreach ($array as $key => $innerArray as $innerKey => $value) { >> > > > > $count += $value; >> > > > > // and do something with $key and $innerKey >> > > > > } >> > > > > >> > > >> > >> > With the addition of array_column in php 5.5, this can be done in a much >> > cleaner way: >> > >> > $array = array( >> > array('value' => 1), >> > array('value' => 2), >> > array('value' => 3), >> > ); >> > >> > $count = 0; >> > >> > foreach(array_column($array, 'value') as $value) { >> > $count += $value; >> > } >> > >> >> And what about the "// and do something with $key and $innerKey" part? > > > This is using the original example provided, which didn't do anything with > the $key and $innerKey. > It's good to see how you have developed a keen sense of code optimization; however, that's not doing much good here, because the intention of the shown code is that those variables are actually used, which is what the commented line conveys :) -- -- Tjerk