PHP - Getting the index of a element from a array

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How can I get the current element number when I'm traversing a array?

I know about count(), but I was hoping there's a built-in function for getting the current field index too, without having to add a extra counter variable.

like this:

foreach($array as $key => value)
  if(index($key) == count($array) ....
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7 Answers

I recently had to figure this out for myself and ended up on a solution inspired by @Zahymaka 's answer, but solving the 2x looping of the array.

What you can do is create an array with all your keys, in the order they exist, and then loop through that.

        $keys=array_keys($items);
        foreach($keys as $index=>$key){
                    echo "position: $index".PHP_EOL."item: ".PHP_EOL;
                    var_dump($items[$key]);
                    ...
        }

PS: I know this is very late to the party, but since I found myself searching for this, maybe this could be helpful to someone else

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