Access PHP Array item value - php

Question

I have the following script that divides the total by the number of people and stores the results in an array.
Instead of dumping the $result array at the end, I wonder if I could echo out the value of each array item in the for loop as it goes?
// initial conditions
$total = 1001;
$people = 5;
// count what is the minimal value, that all the results will have
$value = floor($total / $people);
$result = array_fill(0, $people, $value);
// distribute missing "+1"s as needed in the result
$overheads = $total - $value * $people;
for ($i = 0; $i < $overheads; $i++) {
$result[$i]++;
}
// voila...
var_dump($result);
So, the above script should loop out:
200
200
200
200
201

Answer 1

Technically speaking, you can't "echo out the value of each array item
in the for loop as it goes" because you're not filling the arrays
in a loop, you're filling with array_fill(). The loop you have is to
work with the remainder. If you echo out there, you'll get partial
results. So either you keep your code and echo the values at the end,
with a simple line:
foreach ($result as $r) echo "$r\n";
Or you modify your code to fill the arrays in another manner. Which
might be interesting. Note that you're forgetting about the modulus
operator, %, for the remainder of division. This line:
$overheads = $total - $value * $people;
Could be written simply as:
$overheads = $total % $people;
An idea to fill in a loop:
// initial conditions
$total = 1001;
$people = 5;
$value = floor($total/$people);
$overheads = $total % $people;
foreach (range(1, $people) as $p) {
$r = $value;
if ($overheads) {
# if there is still remainders:
$r++;
$overheads--;
}
# echo the value and also store it
echo "$r\n";
$result[] = $r;
}

Answer 2

// initial conditions
$total = 1001;
$people = 5;
// count what is the minimal value, that all the results will have
$value = floor($total / $people);
$result = array_fill(0, $people, $value);
// distribute missing "+1"s as needed in the result
$overheads = $total - $value * $people;
$i = 1;
foreach($result as $res)
{
if ($i < $people){
echo $res . "\n";
}else{
echo $res + 1 . "\n";
}
$i++;
}
// voila...