<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >next</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.44"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="PHP Manual" HREF="manual.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Array functions" HREF="ref.array.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="list" HREF="function.list.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="pos" HREF="function.pos.html"></HEAD ><BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >PHP Manual</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.list.html" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.pos.html" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.next" >next</A ></H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN4258" ></A >next -- Advance the internal array pointer of an array </DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN4261" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 ><DIV CLASS="funcsynopsis" ><P ></P ><CODE CLASS="FUNCDEF" >mixed next</CODE >(array array);<P ></P ></DIV ><P > Returns the array element in the next place that's pointed by the internal array pointer, or false if there are no more elements. </P ><P > <B CLASS="function" >next()</B > behaves like <A HREF="function.current.html" ><B CLASS="function" >current()</B ></A >, with one difference. It advances the internal array pointer one place forward before returning the element. That means it returns the next array element and advances the internal array pointer by one. If advancing the internal array pointer results in going beyond the end of the element list, <B CLASS="function" >next()</B > returns false. <DIV CLASS="warning" ><P ></P ><TABLE CLASS="warning" BORDER="1" WIDTH="100%" ><TR ><TD ALIGN="CENTER" ><B >Warning</B ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" ><P > If the array contains empty elements then this function will return false for these elements as well. To properly traverse an array which may contain empty elements see the <A HREF="function.each.html" ><B CLASS="function" >each()</B ></A > function. </P ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV > </P ><P > See also: <A HREF="function.current.html" ><B CLASS="function" >current()</B ></A >, <A HREF="function.end.html" ><B CLASS="function" >end()</B ></A > <A HREF="function.prev.html" ><B CLASS="function" >prev()</B ></A > and <A HREF="function.reset.html" ><B CLASS="function" >reset()</B ></A > </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.list.html" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="manual.html" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.pos.html" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >list</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.array.html" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >pos</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >