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<sect1 id="language.function.foreach">
<title>{foreach},{foreachelse}</title>
<informaltable frame="all">
<tgroup cols="5">
<colspec colname="param" align="center" />
<colspec colname="type" align="center" />
<colspec colname="required" align="center" />
<colspec colname="default" align="center" />
<colspec colname="desc" />
<thead>
<row>
<entry>Attribute Name</entry>
<entry>Type</entry>
<entry>Required</entry>
<entry>Default</entry>
<entry>Description</entry>
</row>
</thead>
<tbody>
<row>
<entry>from</entry>
<entry>array</entry>
<entry>Yes</entry>
<entry><emphasis>n/a</emphasis></entry>
<entry>The array you are looping through</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>item</entry>
<entry>string</entry>
<entry>Yes</entry>
<entry><emphasis>n/a</emphasis></entry>
<entry>The name of the variable that is the current
element</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>key</entry>
<entry>string</entry>
<entry>No</entry>
<entry><emphasis>n/a</emphasis></entry>
<entry>The name of the variable that is the current key</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>name</entry>
<entry>string</entry>
<entry>No</entry>
<entry><emphasis>n/a</emphasis></entry>
<entry>The name of the foreach loop for accessing
foreach properties</entry>
</row>
</tbody>
</tgroup>
</informaltable>
<para>
<emphasis>{foreach}</emphasis> loops are an alternative to
<link
linkend="language.function.section"><emphasis>{section}</emphasis></link>
loops. <emphasis>{foreach}</emphasis> is used to loop over a
<emphasis role="bold">single associative array</emphasis>. The syntax for
<emphasis>{foreach}</emphasis> is much easier than
<emphasis>{section}</emphasis>, but as a tradeoff it
<emphasis role="bold">can only be used
for a single array</emphasis>. <emphasis>{foreach}</emphasis> tags must be
paired with <emphasis>{/foreach}</emphasis> tags. Required parameters
are <emphasis>from</emphasis> and <emphasis>item</emphasis>. The
name of the {foreach} loop can be anything you like, made up of
letters, numbers and underscores. <emphasis>{foreach}</emphasis>
loops can be nested, and the nested {foreach} names must be unique
from each other. The <emphasis>from</emphasis> variable (usually an
array of values) determines the number of times
<emphasis>{foreach}</emphasis> will loop.
<emphasis>{foreachelse}</emphasis> is executed when there are no
values in the <emphasis>from</emphasis> variable.
</para>
<example>
<title>{foreach} - item</title>
<programlisting role="php">
<![CDATA[
<?php
$arr = array( 1001,1002,1003);
$smarty->assign('custid', $arr);
?>
]]>
</programlisting>
<programlisting>
<![CDATA[
{* this example will print out all the values of the $custid array *}
{foreach from=$custid item=curr_id}
id: {$curr_id}<br />
{/foreach}
]]>
</programlisting>
<para>
The above example will output:
</para>
<screen>
<![CDATA[
id: 1000<br />
id: 1001<br />
id: 1002<br />
]]>
</screen>
</example>
<example>
<title>{foreach} - item and key</title>
<programlisting role="php">
<![CDATA[
// The key contains the key for each looped value
// assignment looks like this:
<?php
$smarty->assign('contacts', array(
array('phone' => '1',
'fax' => '2',
'cell' => '3'),
array('phone' => '555-4444',
'fax' => '555-3333',
'cell' => '760-1234')
));
?>
]]>
</programlisting>
<programlisting>
<![CDATA[
{foreach name=outer item=contact from=$contacts}
<hr />
{foreach key=key item=item from=$contact}
{$key}: {$item}<br />
{/foreach}
{/foreach}
]]>
</programlisting>
<para>
The above example will output:
</para>
<screen>
<![CDATA[
<hr />
phone: 1<br />
fax: 2<br />
cell: 3<br />
<hr />
phone: 555-4444<br />
fax: 555-3333<br />
cell: 760-1234<br />
]]>
</screen>
</example>
<example>
<title>{foreach} - database example (eg PEAR or ADODB)</title>
<programlisting role="php">
<![CDATA[
<?php
$sql = 'select contact_id, name, nick from contacts order by contact';
$smarty->assign("contacts", $db->getAssoc($sql));
?>
]]>
</programlisting>
<programlisting>
<![CDATA[
{foreach key=cid item=con from=$contacts}
<a href="contact.php?contact_id={$cid}">{$con.name} - {$con.nick}</a><br />
{/foreach}
]]>
</programlisting>
</example>
<para>
{foreach} loops also have their own variables that handle {foreach} properties.
These are indicated like so:
<link linkend="language.variables.smarty.loops">{$smarty.foreach.foreachname.varname}</link>
with
foreachname being the name specified as the <emphasis>name</emphasis>
attribute of foreach
</para>
<para>See <link linkend="section.property.index">{section}</link>
for examples of the properties below as they are identical
</para>
<sect2 id="foreach.property.iteration">
<title>iteration</title>
<para>
iteration is used to display the current loop iteration.Iteration always
starts with 1 and is incremented by one on each iteration.
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="foreach.property.first">
<title>first</title>
<para>
<emphasis>first</emphasis> is set to true if the current foreach iteration is the first
one.
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="foreach.property.last">
<title>last</title>
<para>
<emphasis>last</emphasis> is set to true if the current foreach iteration is the last
one.
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="foreach.property.show">
<title>show</title>
<para>
<emphasis>show</emphasis> is used as a parameter to foreach.
<emphasis>show</emphasis> is a boolean value, true or false. If
false, the foreach will not be displayed. If there is a foreachelse
present, that will be alternately displayed.
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="foreach.property.total">
<title>total</title>
<para>
<emphasis>total</emphasis> is used to display the number of iterations that this foreach
will loop. This can be used inside or after the foreach.
</para>
<para>
See also <link linkend="language.function.section">{section}</link> and
<link linkend="language.variables.smarty.loops">$smarty.foreach</link>.
</para>
</sect2>
</sect1>
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