Pull elements from next foreach item in PHP?

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Sk446 picture Sk446 · Jan 21, 2011 · Viewed 8.7k times · Source

I'm doing a PHP 'traffic light' style warning system for my website, that basically says' if there is X percentage change between the current array entry and the next one, throw an error'.

So, I'm looping through my array elements in a foreach loop, however need to be able to do something like this: (note: this is just a basic example, but should be enough to get the idea)

foreach($array as $a)
{
$thisValue = $a['value'];
$nextValue = next($a['value']);

$percentageDiff = ($nextValue-$thisValue)/$thisValue;
}

I've put next() tags to get the next value but understand this only works for arrays. IS there something else I can use to get the next foreach item?

Thanks for your time!

Answer

helloandre picture helloandre · Jan 21, 2011

do it the other way, and store the previous entry and compare those.

$prev = null;
foreach ($item as $i){
    if ($prev !== null){
        diff($prev, $i);
    }
    $prev = $i
}

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