Sorry if this is confusing. It's tough for me to put into words having beginner knowledge of PHP.
I'm using the following foreach loop:
foreach ($_POST['technologies'] as $technologies){
echo ", " . $technologies;
}
Which produces:
, First, Second, Third
What I want:
First, Second, Third
All I need is for the loop to skip the echo ", "
for the first key. How can I accomplish that?
You can pull out the indices of each array item using =>
and not print a comma for the first item:
foreach ($_POST['technologies'] as $i => $technologies) {
if ($i > 0) {
echo ", ";
}
echo $technologies;
}
Or, even easier, you can use implode($glue, $pieces), which "returns a string containing a string representation of all the array elements in the same order, with the glue string between each element":
echo implode(", ", $_POST['technologies']);
For general case of doing something in every but first iteration of foreach loop:
$first = true;
foreach ($_POST['technologies'] as $technologies){
if(!$first) {
echo ", ";
} else {
$first = false;
}
echo $technologies;
}
but implode() is best way to deal with this specific problem of yours:
echo implode(", ", $_POST['technologies']);
You need some kind of a flag:
$i = 1;
foreach ($_POST['technologies'] as $technologies){
if($i > 1){
echo ", " . $technologies;
} else {
echo $technologies;
}
$i++;
}