Find the last element of an array while using a foreach loop in PHP

Solution 1:

It sounds like you want something like this:

$numItems = count($arr);
$i = 0;
foreach($arr as $key=>$value) {
  if(++$i === $numItems) {
    echo "last index!";
  }
}    

That being said, you don't -have- to iterate over an "array" using foreach in php.

Solution 2:

You could get the value of the last key of the array using end(array_keys($array)) and compare it to the current key:

$last_key = end(array_keys($array));
foreach ($array as $key => $value) {
    if ($key == $last_key) {
        // last element
    } else {
        // not last element
    }
}

Solution 3:

Note: This doesn't work because calling next() advances the array pointer, so you're skipping every other element in the loop

why so complicated?

foreach($input as $key => $value) {
    $ret .= "$value";
    if (next($input)==true) $ret .= ",";
}

This will add a , behind every value except the last one!