note 104962 deleted from control-structures.foreach by danbrown

Note Submitter: dreamer79 at mail.bg ---- "fabiolimasouto at gmail dot com" wrote about a "bug" he found when referencing an array in a foreach statement. This actually is not a bug at all, but normal array behavior. The explanation is in the array data structure. Each array contains it's iteration pointer that contains a position for the next element. When using foreach statements PHP just follows this pointer. So the case: <? $arr= array(1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9); foreach ($arr as $value){ if ($value>4) break; } foreach ($arr as $value){ print $value.' '; } ?> will result in: 6 7 8 9 The explanation is in the manual for the reset function. It resets the internal pointer for the array. In fact such cases may happen in any code if you use break inside foreach and start new foreach loops. So just use reset before each foreach.