using 2 loops in PHP foreach(...) - php

Question

I have this PHP foreach loop:
foreach($emails_list as $email)
but i want to do something like
foreach($emails_list as $email and $forename_list as $forename)
my code above the foreach loop is:
$sql2="SELECT * from contacts where company_sequence = '".$customersequence."' and contactstatus = '' ";
$rs2=mysql_query($sql2,$conn) or die(mysql_error());
while($result2=mysql_fetch_array($rs2))
{
$emails_list[] = $result2["email"];
}
si i want to be able to include $result["forename"]; within the loop too
will the above work to make 2 loops?

Answer 1

Not sure if understand, but try use for instead:
$emails_list = array("01#gmail.com", "02#gmail.com", "03#gmail.com", "04#gmail.com");
$forename_list = ("01 something", "02 something", "03 something", "04 something");
if($emails_list == $forename_list){
$count = count($emails_list);
for($i=0;$i<$count;$i++){
echo 'Email: '.$emails_list[$i].', Name: '.$forename_list[$i];
}
} else { echo 'Troubles'; }

Answer 2

there is no way to do this in foreach in a one statment
for this use for loop like
for ($i=0;$i<=count($emails_list); $i++) {
echo $emails_list[$i];
echo $forename_list[$i];
}

Answer 3

All the examples listed with a basic for loop will work fine for numeric arrays, however what about associative arrays?
The best way to do this would be something like the following:
$arr_1 = array( 'foo'=>'bar', 'fizz'=>'bang' );
$arr_2 = array( 'hello'=>1, 2=>'world' );
$array_size = count( $arr_1 ); // NOTE: This assumes the arrays are of the same size.
// Reset the internal array pointers
reset( $arr_1 );
reset( $arr_2 );
for ($i = 0; $i < $array_size; $i++ ) {
$first_array_element = current( $arr_1 );
$second_array_element = current( $arr_2 );
// code here
next( $arr_1 );
next( $arr_2 );
}
This will handle both associative and numeric arrays.