Posted by Betikci Boris on 01/08/08 09:22

On Jan 8, 3:27 am, adam.timberl...@gmail.com wrote:
> I was reading this article yesterday:http://www.talkphp.com/advanced-php-programming/1886-how-would-i-appl...
>
> I am wondering.. okay.. we can use array_walk but doesn't that just
> loop through the items anyway ?? So why not just use the foreach loop
> instead... is it a shorthand trick or is there any deeper reasoning
> behind it... Thats my question!
>
> I do have another question and that is if it is a shorthand version,
> having a foreach loop isn't much more in terms of the letters you type
> and so why have the PHP developers put it in there ??
>
> It's puzzling me. Thank you in advance.

When word comes to user defined functions, bundled functions seems
unnecessary ;) However default functions of PHP help to keep your code
clean, optimized and readable, etc.

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