Foreach loop for arrays in PHP - Mini Project: Build & Apply

Foreach Loop for Arrays in PHP

📖 Scenario: You are managing a small fruit shop. You have a list of fruits you sell, and you want to show each fruit's name to your customers.

🎯 Goal: Build a PHP script that uses a foreach loop to go through an array of fruits and print each fruit's name.

📋 What You'll Learn

Create an array called fruits with the exact values: 'Apple', 'Banana', 'Cherry', 'Date', 'Elderberry'

Create a variable called count and set it to 0

Use a foreach loop with the variable fruit to iterate over the fruits array

Inside the loop, increment count by 1

Inside the loop, print the current fruit's name on its own line

After the loop, print the total number of fruits using the count variable

💡 Why This Matters

🌍 Real World

Loops like foreach are used to process lists of items such as products, users, or messages in many real applications.

💼 Career

Understanding foreach loops is essential for PHP developers to handle arrays and collections efficiently in web development.

1

Create the fruits array

Create an array called fruits with these exact values: 'Apple', 'Banana', 'Cherry', 'Date', 'Elderberry'

PHP

<?php

// Create the array called fruits with the given fruit names
// Your code here

Need a hint?

Use square brackets [] to create the array and separate the fruit names with commas.

2

Create a counter variable

Create a variable called count and set it to 0

PHP

<?php
$fruits = ['Apple', 'Banana', 'Cherry', 'Date', 'Elderberry'];

// Create a variable called count and set it to 0
// Your code here

Need a hint?

Use the = sign to assign the value 0 to the variable count.

3

Use a foreach loop to iterate over fruits

Use a foreach loop with the variable fruit to iterate over the fruits array. Inside the loop, increment count by 1 and print the current fruit's name on its own line.

PHP

<?php
$fruits = ['Apple', 'Banana', 'Cherry', 'Date', 'Elderberry'];
$count = 0;

// Use foreach loop to go through fruits
// Inside the loop, add 1 to count and print fruit
// Your code here

Need a hint?

Use foreach ($fruits as $fruit) to loop. Use $count++ to add 1. Use echo to print.

4

Print the total number of fruits

After the loop, print the total number of fruits using the count variable with the exact text: Total fruits: X where X is the value of count.

PHP

<?php
$fruits = ['Apple', 'Banana', 'Cherry', 'Date', 'Elderberry'];
$count = 0;

foreach ($fruits as $fruit) {
    $count++;
    echo $fruit . "\n";
}

// Print the total number of fruits
// Your code here

Need a hint?

Use echo "Total fruits: $count\n"; to print the total count.