Question

Let’s say I have this following code:

<?php           
    $i = 1;
    $user_login = "some_name";

    do {
        $user_login_tmp = $user_login . "_" . ($i++);
        echo $user_login_tmp . "\n";
    } while ($i<10);
?>

As seen in this demo(clickable!), the first echo echoes some_name_1.
This seems kinda weird to me since there is $i++ there.
How come that the first output isn’t ..._2? Am I missing something?

I tried looking for an answer in the PHP manual page of the do-while loop but I couldn’t find my answer there…

Answer 1

$i++ Post-increments, it means: return $i and then increments $i by one.

The demo’s output will start with ..._2 if you change the code to (++$i) (new demo)

Check out the PHP.net’s page about the incrementing operator:

http://php.net/manual/en/language.operators.increment.php

++$a    Pre-increment   Increments $a by one, then returns $a.

$a++    Post-increment  Returns $a, then increments $a by one.

--$a    Pre-decrement   Decrements $a by one, then returns $a.

$a--    Post-decrement  Returns $a, then decrements $a by one.