(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7)
next — Advance the internal pointer of an array
next() behaves like current(), with one difference. It advances the internal array pointer one place forward before returning the element value. That means it returns the next array value and advances the internal array pointer by one.
Returns the array value in the next place that's pointed to by the
internal array pointer, or FALSE if there are no more elements.
This function may
return Boolean FALSE, but may also return a non-Boolean value which
evaluates to FALSE. Please read the section on Booleans for more
information. Use the ===
operator for testing the return value of this
function.
Example #1 Example use of next() and friends
<?php
$transport = array('foot', 'bike', 'car', 'plane');
$mode = current($transport); // $mode = 'foot';
$mode = next($transport); // $mode = 'bike';
$mode = next($transport); // $mode = 'car';
$mode = prev($transport); // $mode = 'bike';
$mode = end($transport); // $mode = 'plane';
?>
Note: The end of an array is indistinguishable from a boolean
FALSEelement. To properly traverse an array which may containFALSEelements, see the foreach() function. To still use next() and properly check if the end of the array has been reached, the key() of the next() element should be checked to be strictly different from null.