note 66000 deleted from control-structures.foreach by danbrown

Note Submitter: php at kormoc dot com ---- With foreach and references, there is a super easy way to corrupt your data see this test script: <?php $array = array(1,2,3); foreach( $array as &$item ); foreach( $array as $item ); print_r( $array ); ?> You would imagine that it would have 1,2,3 but in reality, it outputs 1,2,2 The issue is that $item is a pointer to the last array value, and exists outside of the scope of the foreach, so the second foreach overwrites the value. If you would check what it gets set to in the second foreach loop, you would see that it gets set to 1 and then 2 and then 2 again. This has already been filed as a bug, see: http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=29992 but php developers seem to think that it's expected behaviour and *good* behaviour, so it's doubtful that it will change anytime soon. This is a really bad gotcha, so watch out.