Foreach loop, offset or skip first post in the loop - php

Question

I'm trying to figure this out for hours but I can't. I just want to show the second post and skip the first one, just like the Wordpress offset function. I'm using AW blog extension for Magento and I want to skip the first post in the recent blog posts. Below is my modified code showing one post recent post in a homepage block. I just want to create another block that will show the second recent post. :(
<?php $posts = $this->getPosts(); ?>
<div id="messages_product_view">
<?php Mage::app()->getLayout()->getMessagesBlock()-> setMessages(Mage::getSingleton('customer/session')->getMessages(true)); ?>
<?php echo Mage::app()->getLayout()->getMessagesBlock()->getGroupedHtml(); ?>
</div>
<?php
foreach ($posts as $post):
if ($i++ >= 1) break;
?>
<div class="postWrapper">
<div class="postTitle">
<h3><a href="<?php echo $post->getAddress(); ?>" ><?php echo $post->getTitle(); ?></a></h3>
</div>
<div class="postContent"><?php echo $post->getPostContent(); ?></div>
</div>
<?php endforeach; ?>

Answer 1

I will recommend you to check the count and after printing it stop the loop, otherwise it will loop the entire array to the end and print just the second iteration.
$i=0;
foreach ($posts as $post){
if ($i==1) {
//print your div here
$i++; //added here after edit.
continue;
}else if ( $i>1 ){
break;
}
$i++;
}
This way it will only iterate twice.

Answer 2

Try changing:
foreach ($posts as $post):
if ($i++ >= 1) break;
to:
//set $i outside of loop
$i=0;
foreach ($posts as $post):
if ($i==0) {
$i++;
//skip the first record
continue;
}

Answer 3

Try this -
<?php $i=1;
foreach ($posts as $post):
if ($i > 1) {
?>
<div class="postWrapper">
<div class="postTitle">
<h3><a href="<?php echo $post->getAddress(); ?>" ><?php echo $post->getTitle(); ?></a></h3>
</div>
<div class="postContent"><?php echo $post->getPostContent(); ?></div>
</div>
<?php }
$i++;
endforeach; ?>