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Increase year after every 3 iterations while looping


I have an array contain n number of elements can be 6 or 8, like that:

$langs = ["PHP", "JAVA", "Ruby", "C", "C++", "Perl"];

I would like to add one year evenly next to the elements

Desired output in case of 6 elements:

  • PHP - 2022
  • JAVA - 2022
  • Ruby - 2022
  • C - 2023
  • C++ - 2023
  • Perl - 2023

Desired output in case of 9 elements:

  • PHP - 2022
  • JAVA - 2022
  • Ruby - 2022
  • C - 2023
  • C++ - 2023
  • Perl - 2023
  • Python - 2024
  • Javascript - 2024
  • Mysql - 2024

My try :

$date = Carbon::now();
foreach($langs as $key => $lang){
   if(count($langs) % $key == 0){
       echo $lang .' - '. $date->addYear(); 
   }
}

Solution

  • Bump the year every time $key is not zero and $key / 3 has no remainder.

    Code: (Demo)

    $langs = ["PHP", "JAVA", "Ruby", "C", "C++", "Perl", "Perl", "Python", "Javascript", "Mysql"];
    $date = Carbon::now();
    foreach ($langs as $key => $lang){
       if ($key && $key % 3 === 0) {
           $date->addYear();
       }
       echo $lang .' - '. $date->year . PHP_EOL; 
    }
    

    To be perfectly honest, I don't see any benefit is calling a datetime wrapper for this very basic task. You can easily replace all usage of Carbon with PHP's native date() function. (Demo)

    $langs = ["PHP", "JAVA", "Ruby", "C", "C++", "Perl", "Perl", "Python", "Javascript", "Mysql"];
    $year = date('Y');
    foreach ($langs as $key => $lang){
       if ($key && $key % 3 === 0) {
           ++$year;
       }
       echo $lang .' - '. $year . PHP_EOL; 
    }