Using reset in PHP

Posted by admin

May 8, 2008

reset – Set the internal pointer of an array to its first element

Description

mixed reset ( array array)

reset() rewinds array’s internal pointer to the first element and returns the value of the first array element.

Example 1. reset() example

<?php
$array  = array(’step  one’, ’step  two’, ’step  three’, ’step  four’);

// by  default, the pointer is on the first element

echo current($array) .  “<br />\n”;  // “step one”

// skip two  steps

next($array);

next($array);

echo current($array) . “<br />\n”; // “step three”

// reset pointer, start again on step  one

reset($array);

echo current($array) . “<br />\n”; // “step one”