Can't get my head around arrays

matbeard

I'm using the following code to display the elements in an array - $rssData (the output from an RSS file):

<?php 
  foreach ( $rssData as $news ) { ?>
    <div class="soheader11"><a href="<?= $news['link'] ?>"><?= $news['title'] ?></a></div>
    <div class="sogrey11"><?= $news['description'] ?></div>
  <? } ?>

This works fine - but I want to be able to handle the first element in the array differently to the rest.

How can I format the first item one way, and then create a loop for the rest?

Thanks in advance for any help.

barand

Simply

<?php 
  $first = true;
   foreach ( $rssData as $news ) { 
    if ($first} {?>

     /* do it one way */

<?} else {?>

     /* do it another way */

  <?    }
    $first = false;
 } ?>

matbeard

Thanks... I must admit - I hadn't thought of that... very simple.

I'll do that.

However, just out of interest - does can anyone tell me how I'd go about accessing just the first item in the array - I just can't figure it out by looking through the PHP.net documentation.

Thanks again.

barand

If it's simple indexed array,

$rssData[0]

Also see [man]current[/man]

hth