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PHP Build a Basic PHP Website (2018) Listing and Sorting Inventory Items Working with Functions

Alex Herrera
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Alex Herrera
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Posted by Alex Herrera
Alex Herrera
Courses Plus Student 6,392 Points

Confused about PHP Function

The test says that this code will echo '6' True enough, when I run it on my local machine it does echo '6'.

But I dont know why!

<?php

$numbers = array(1,2,3,4); $total = count($numbers); $sum = 0; $output = ""; $i = 0;

foreach($numbers as $number) { $i = $i + 1; if ($i < $total) { $sum = $sum + $number; } }

echo $sum;

?>

In my head this should cycle through the loop 4 times, adding each value in the array to the variable $sum.

1+2+3+4 = 10

Clearly Im way off, can someone explain how we get to 6?

Thanks!

1 Answer

Alex Herrera
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Alex Herrera
Courses Plus Student 6,392 Points
Alex Herrera
Alex Herrera
Courses Plus Student 6,392 Points

Hang about, is this because 1 is added to $i at the start of the loop? So the loop only runs 3 times?

So, 1+2+3 = 6?

Benjamin Larson
Benjamin Larson
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Benjamin Larson
Benjamin Larson
34,055 Points

Guess you didn't need help after all :D Yes- adding 1 to $i means the loop only runs 3 times.

You can always add some temporary echo statements to display the value of variables before, during or after loop iterations to try to gauge what's going on.