PHP Looping through arrays with a 'for' loop

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I am getting more practice with using for loops to loop through arrays, and have a question that I can't figure out thus far.

I have three loops and in the loops are common color names. Using the first for loop, I am looping through all the three loops and finding the common color name, this works fine.

The second part is where I am stumped on how to do this, how to assign the common values array into another array to just show those common values.

I know I can use a foreach loop that does the trick as shown below, but I am trying to see how to do this with a for loop instead.

How can I do this? (without using array_intersect)

Code (this loops through all arrays and gives me the common values):

$array1 = ['red', 'blue', 'green'];
$array2 = ['black', 'blue', 'purple', 'red'];
$array3 = ['red', 'blue', 'orange', 'brown'];

$value = [];

$array_total = array_merge($array1, $array2, $array3);

$array_length = count($array_total);

for ($i = 0; $i < $array_length; $i++) {
    if (!isset($value[$array_total[$i]])) {
        $value[$array_total[$i]] = 0;
    }

    $a = $value[$array_total[$i]]++;
}
//print_r($value); -- Array ( [red] => 3 [blue] => 3 [green] => 1 [black] => 1 [purple] => 1 [orange] => 1 [brown] => 1 )

Using a foreach loop works, but I want to learn how to do it with a for loop:

$commonValues = [];

foreach ($value as $values => $count) {
    if ($count > 2) {
        $commonValues[] = $values;
    }
}
print_r($commonValues); -- Array ( [0] => red [1] => blue )

Rizier123 · Accepted Answer · 2015-04-29 21:27:42Z

7

This should work for you:

Just use array_keys() to get an array with which you can access your associative array with numerical keys

<?php

    $value = ["red" => 3, "blue" => 3, "green" => 1, "black" => 1, "purple" => 1, "orange" => 1, "brown" => 1];
    $count = count($value);
    $keys = array_keys($value);

    for($i = 0; $i < $count; $i++) {
        if ($value[$keys[$i]] > 2) {
            $commonValues[] = $keys[$i];
        }
    }

    print_r($commonValues);

?>

output:

Array ( [0] => red [1] => blue )

edited Apr 29, 2015 at 21:27

answered Apr 29, 2015 at 21:18

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cattywampus Over a year ago

Is there a way to do it without using array_keys? I'm to limit the use of built-in php functions for learning purposes.

Rizier123 Over a year ago

@cattywampus No there is now way around this other than to use a foreach loop. You somehow have to get the keys to access your array.

cattywampus Over a year ago

Gotcha, thats the one step I was missing, trying to find a solution around the keys. Thank you, this was helpful in learning how to solve this with for loops.

Don't Panic · Accepted Answer · 2015-04-29 22:32:30Z

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This does use some other PHP functions, but here is one other way to get the keys without using foreach.

<?php

    $value = ["red" => 3, "blue" => 3, "green" => 1, "black" => 1, "purple" => 1, "orange" => 1, "brown" => 1];
    $count = count($value);

    for($i = 0; $i < $count; $i++) {

        if (current($value) > 2) {
            $commonValues[] = key($value);
        }
        next($value);
    }

    print_r($commonValues);

?>

answered Apr 29, 2015 at 22:32

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