Question

I’m trying to process a for loop within a for loop, and just a little wary of the syntax… Will this work? Essentially, I want to run code for every 1,000 records while the count is equal to or less than the $count… Will the syntax below work, or is there a better way?

for($x = 0; $x <= 700000; $x++) {
  for($i = 0; $i <= 1000; $i++) {
     //run the code
  }
} 

Answer 1

The syntax you have will work, but I don’t think it’s going to do exactly what you want. Right now, it’s going to do the outer loop 700,001 times, and for every single one of those 700,001 times, it’s going to do the inner loop.

That means, in total, the inner loop is going to run 700,001 x 1001 = about 700.7 million times.

If this isn’t what you want, can you give a bit more information? I can’t really work out what “I want to run code for every 1,000 records while the count is equal to or less than the $count” means. I don’t see any variable named $count at all.