while
If you are trying to use a construct like this:
<?php
do {
// some code to run only one more time if expression is true
if ($your_expression == true)
continue;
} while (false);
?>
It will NOT loop as expected, because the continue tries to run the "next" loop, but the expression says just "false" so there is no next loop. The continue exits the while loop.
To get around this you may use an other expression, like this
<?php
do {
// some code to run only one more time if expression is true
if ($your_expression == true)
continue;
break;
} while (true);
?>
or use the goto statement since PHP 5.3.
do-while
Циклите do-while (прави-докато) са подобни на циклите while, с тази разлика, че вместо в началото, изразът за истинност се проверява в края на всяка итерация. Основната разлика от обикновените цикли while е, че първата итерация на цикъл do-while със сигурност ще се изпълни (условието се проверява единствено в края на итерацията), докато при циклите while не е задължително да се изпълни (условието се проверява в началото на всяка итерация, така че ако се изчисли на FALSE от самото начало, цикълът ще завърши незабавно).
Съществува само един синтаксис за цикли do-while:
<?php
$i = 0;
do {
echo $i;
} while ($i > 0);
?>
Горният цикъл ще се изпълни точно един път, тъй като след първата итерация, когато се провери условието, то ще се изчисли на FALSE ($i не е по-голяма от 0) и изпълненито на цикъла ще спре.
Напредналите програмисти на C може би са запознати с една друга употреба на цикъла do-while: в случай че трябва да се спре изпълнението в средата на блокове от код, те се заграждат с do-while (0) и се използва командата break. Следният фрагмент от код демонстрира това:
<?php
do {
if ($i < 5) {
echo "i не е достатъчно голямо";
break;
}
$i *= $factor;
if ($i < $minimum_limit) {
break;
}
echo "i е ОК";
/* работа с i */
} while (0);
?>
Не се притеснявате ако не разберете това веднага или изобщо никога. Можете да пишете скриптове и то мощни скриптове без да използвате това 'свойство'.
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User Contributed Notes
do-while
david dot schueler at tel-billig dot de
18-Mar-2011 02:12
xiaomao5 at live dot com
13-Mar-2011 04:48
Another hack
If you want $type to only have a value of 0 or 1, you can do this:
<?php
do {
echo 'Choose a type, 0 or 1: ';
$type = trim(fgets(STDIN));
if ($type == 0) {
/* do stuff */
} elseif ($type == 1) {
/* do stuff */
}
} while ($type != 0 && $type != 1);
?>
shaida dot mca at gmail dot com
19-Aug-2010 08:01
Example of Do while :-
<?php
$i = 0;
echo 'This code will run at least once because i default value is 0.<br/>';
do {
echo 'i value is ' . $i . ', so code block will run. <br/>';
++$i;
} while ($i < 10);
?>
andrew at NOSPAM dot devohive dot com
15-Sep-2008 07:44
I'm guilty of writing constructs without curly braces sometimes... writing the do--while seemed a bit odd without the curly braces ({ and }), but just so everyone is aware of how this is written with a do--while...
a normal while:
<?php
while ( $isValid ) $isValid = doSomething($input);
?>
a do--while:
<?php
do $isValid = doSomething($input);
while ( $isValid );
?>
Also, a practical example of when to use a do--while when a simple while just won't do (lol)... copying multiple 2nd level nodes from one document to another using the DOM XML extension
<?php
# open up/create the documents and grab the root element
$fileDoc = domxml_open_file('example.xml'); // existing xml we want to copy
$fileRoot = $fileDoc->document_element();
$newDoc = domxml_new_doc('1.0'); // new document we want to copy to
$newRoot = $newDoc->create_element('rootnode');
$newRoot = $newDoc->append_child($newRoot); // this is the node we want to copy to
# loop through nodes and clone (using deep)
$child = $fileRoot->first_child(); // first_child must be called once and can only be called once
do $newRoot->append_child($child->clone_node(true)); // do first, so that the result from first_child is appended
while ( $child = $child->next_sibling() ); // we have to use next_sibling for everything after first_child
?>
Ryan
18-Apr-2008 07:59
I've found that the most useful thing to use do-while loops for is multiple checks of file existence. The guaranteed iteration means that it will check through at least once, which I had trouble with using a simple "while" loop because it never incremented at the end.
My code was:
<?php
$filename = explode(".", $_FILES['file']['name']); // File being uploaded
$i=0; // Number of times processed (number to add at the end of the filename)
do {
/* Since most files being uploaded don't end with a number,
we have to make sure that there is a number at the end
of the filename before we start simply incrementing. I
admit there is probably an easier way to do this, but this
was a quick slap-together job for a friend, and I find it
works just fine. So, the first part "if($i > 0) ..." says that
if the loop has already been run at least once, then there
is now a number at the end of the filename and we can
simply increment that. Otherwise, we have to place a
number at the end of the filename, which is where $i
comes in even handier */
if($i > 0) $filename[0]++;
else $filename[0] = $filename[0].$i;
$i++;
} while(file_exists("uploaded/".$filename[0].".".$filename[1]));
/* Now that everything is uploaded, we should move it
somewhere it can be accessed. Hence, the "uploaded"
folder. */
move_uploaded_file($_FILES['file']['tmp_name'], "uploaded/".$filename[0].".".$filename[1]);
?>
I'm sure there are plenty of ways of doing this without using the do-while loop, but I managed to toss this one together in no-time flat, and I'm not a great PHP programmer. =) It's simple and effective, and I personally think it works better than any "for" or "while" loop that I've seen that does the same thing.
jantsch at gmail dot com
29-Nov-2007 02:56
Useful when you want to continue to read a recordset that was already being read like in:
<?
$sql = "select * from customers";
$res = mysql_query( $sql );
// read the first record
if( $rs = mysql_fetch_row( $res ) ){
// do something with this record
}
// do another stuff here
// keep reading till the end
if( mysql_num_rows( $res )>1 ){
do{
// processing the records till the end
}while( $rs = mysql_fetch_row( $res ));
}
?>
jayreardon at gmail dot com
11-Apr-2007 12:36
There is one major difference you should be aware of when using the do--while loop vs. using a simple while loop: And that is when the check condition is made.
In a do--while loop, the test condition evaluation is at the end of the loop. This means that the code inside of the loop will iterate once through before the condition is ever evaluated. This is ideal for tasks that need to execute once before a test is made to continue, such as test that is dependant upon the results of the loop.
Conversely, a plain while loop evaluates the test condition at the begining of the loop before any execution in the loop block is ever made. If for some reason your test condition evaluates to false at the very start of the loop, none of the code inside your loop will be executed.