PHP Query

[Charisma Bypass]

Another problem I am struggling with...

I have a $count =0.  I use $count ++;

If ($count == 0) echo "STARTING";

The $count is open ended. 

What I need to do is at the end of the $count, echo "ENDING";

Any ideas?  Thanks in advance.

[neal]

erm, what value are you tesing $count against..?


for argument's sake let's say you're using a for loop testing $count against a value of 10:

there are a couple of ways of doing the same thing.

Code:

$end = 10;

for($count = 0; $count < $end; $count++) {

if($count == 0) echo "STARTING";

// other code to run

if($count == $end) echo "ENDING";
}

otherwise:

Code:

$end = 10;

echo "STARTING";

for($count = 0; $count < $end; $count++) {

// code to run here

}

echo "ENDING";

the second way would be _slightly_ faster because you're not testing for the value of $count an extra 2 times on each loop but the code isn't quite as modular & pretty. i hate having random echo statements each side of loops throughout the code.

[Charisma Bypass]

D'oh.  thanks Neal, you rescued me from head bashing keyboard.