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From: Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de>
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Subject: Re: break foreach loop after certain iteration and then start it
Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2016 11:46:25 +0100
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Arno Welzel wrote:

> Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn schrieb am 2016-03-05 um 02:28:
>> Arno Welzel wrote:
>>> <?php
>>> $counter = 0;
>>>
>>> foreach($mylist as $element)
>>         ^^
>>> {
>>>     […]
>>>     if($counter==3)
>>        ^^
>> Flow control statements should not be written like function calls.
> 
> Which is a matter of style.

Yes, therefore *I* said “should”.

> I recognize flow control statements also when they are not formatted with
> a space preceding the first bracket ;-).
> 
> But for beginners it may be helpful to distinguish between function
> calls and flow control.

*PHP Standards Recommendations (PSR)-2* says it is a “MUST” and a “MUST NOT” 
respectively, instead: <http://www.php-fig.org/psr/psr-2/#1-overview>

> [...]
>> Or, if this is too confusing,
>> 
>>     if (($index + 1) % 3 === 0)
> 
> […]
> When someone had enough knowledge to understand all this he would not
> ask here how to do something every third iteration within a foreach()
> loop.

This is still not a PHP support forum, but a newsgroup for discussion about 
PHP.

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