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A summary of PHP methods for traversing arrays, a summary of PHP traversal numbers

A friend asked me a question today about PHP methods for traversing arrays, and I told her a few. By the way, I will write an article to summarize it. If the summary is not complete, please point it out

First, foreach()

foreach() is the simplest and most effective method for traversing data in an array.

<&#63;php 
    $urls= array('aaa','bbb','ccc','ddd'); 
    foreach ($urls as $url){ 
      echo "This Site url is $url! <br />"; 
    } 
&#63;> 

Display results:

This Site url is aaa 
This Site url is bbb 
This Site url is ccc 
This Site url is ddd 

Second, while() is used in conjunction with list() and each().

<&#63;php 
    $urls= array('aaa','bbb','ccc','ddd'); 
    while(list($key,$val)= each($urls)) { 
      echo "This Site url is $val.<br />"; 
    } 
&#63;> 

Display results:

This Site url is aaa 
This Site url is bbb 
This Site url is ccc 
This Site url is ddd 

Third, for() uses for to traverse the array

<&#63;php 
    $urls= array('aaa','bbb','ccc','ddd'); 
    for ($i= 0;$i< count($urls); $i++){ 
      $str= $urls[$i]; 
      echo "This Site url is $str.<br />"; 
    } 
&#63;> 

Display results:

This Site url is aaa 
This Site url is bbb 
This Site url is ccc 
This Site url is ddd 

Sometimes people also ask which of these methods of traversing an array is faster. Let’s do a simple test and you will understand
=========== Let’s test three speeds of traversing arrays ===========
Generally, there are three methods for traversing an array, for, while, and foreach. The simplest and most convenient of them is foreach. Let's first test the time it takes to traverse a one-dimensional array with 50,000 subscripts.

<&#63;php 
  $arr= array(); 
  for($i= 0; $i< 50000; $i++){ 
  $arr[]= $i*rand(1000,9999); 
  } 
  function GetRunTime() 
  { 
  list($usec,$sec)=explode(" ",microtime()); 
  return ((float)$usec+(float)$sec); 
  } 
  ###################################### 
  $time_start= GetRunTime(); 
  for($i= 0; $i< count($arr); $i++){ 
  $str= $arr[$i]; 
  } 
  $time_end= GetRunTime(); 
  $time_used= $time_end- $time_start; 
  echo 'Used time of for:'.round($time_used, 7).'(s)<br /><br />'; 
  unset($str, $time_start, $time_end, $time_used); 
  ###################################### 
  $time_start= GetRunTime(); 
  while(list($key, $val)= each($arr)){ 
  $str= $val; 
  } 
  $time_end= GetRunTime(); 
  $time_used= $time_end- $time_start; 
  echo 'Used time of while:'.round($time_used, 7).'(s)<br /><br />'; 
  unset($str, $key, $val, $time_start, $time_end, $time_used); 
  ###################################### 
  $time_start= GetRunTime(); 
  foreach($arr as$key=> $val){ 
  $str= $val; 
  } 
  $time_end= GetRunTime(); 
  $time_used= $time_end- $time_start; 
  echo 'Used time of foreach:'.round($time_used, 7).'(s)<br /><br />'; 
  &#63;> 

Test results:

Used time of for:0.0228429(s) 
Used time of while:0.0544658(s) 
Used time of foreach:0.0085628(s) 

After repeated tests, the results show that for traversing the same array, foreach is the fastest and the slowest is while. In principle, foreach operates on a copy of the array (by copying the array), while while operates by moving the internal index of the array. Generally speaking, it is believed that while should be faster than foreach (because foreach first moves the array when it starts to execute. Copied in, while while moves the internal pointer directly), but the result is just the opposite. The reason should be that foreach is an internal implementation of PHP, while while is a general loop structure. Therefore, in general applications, foreach is simple and efficient. Under PHP5, foreach can also traverse the attributes of a class.

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