PHP - Grab the first element using a foreach

Question

Wondering what would be a good method to get the first iteration on a foreach loop. I want to do something different on the first iteration.

Is a conditional our b

Answer 1

Even morer eleganterer:

foreach($array as $index => $value) {
 if ($index == 0) {
      echo $array[$index];
 }
}

That example only works if you use PHP's built-in array append features/function or manually specify keys in proper numerical order.

Here's an approach that is not like the others listed here that should work via the natural order of any PHP array.

$first = array_shift($array);
//do stuff with $first

foreach($array as $elem) {
 //do stuff with rest of array elements
}

array_unshift($array, $first);     //return first element to top

Answer 2

hm

<?php
$i = 0;
foreach($ar as $sth) {
    if($i++ == 0) {
        // do something
    }
    // do something else
}

more elegant.