Question: I have an array:

```
$arr_nav = array( array( "id" => "apple", 
          "url" => "apple.html",
          "name" => "My Apple" 
        ),
        array( "id" => "orange", 
          "url" => "orange/oranges.html",
          "name" => "View All Oranges",
        ),
        array( "id" => "pear", 
          "url" => "pear.html",
          "name" => "A Pear"
        )       
 );

```

Which I would like to use a foreach loop to replace (which only allows me to set the number:

```
for ($row = 0; $row < 5; $row++)

```

with the ability to display a `.first` and `.last` class for the relevant array values

**Edit**

I would like the data to be echoed as:

```
<li id="' . $arr_nav[$row]["id"] . '"><a href="' . $v_url_root . $arr_nav[$row]["url"] . '" title="' . $arr_nav[$row]["name"] . '">"' . $arr_nav[$row]["name"] . '</a></li>' . "\r\n";

```

Many thanks for your quick responses. StackOverflow rocks!

Answer: 
```
$last = count($arr_nav) - 1;

foreach ($arr_nav as $i => $row)
{
    $isFirst = ($i == 0);
    $isLast = ($i == $last);

    echo ... $row['name'] ... $row['url'] ...;
}

```
If you mean the first and last entry of the array when talking about a.first and a.last, it goes like this:

```
foreach ($arr_nav as $inner_array) {
    echo reset($inner_array); //apple, orange, pear
    echo end($inner_array); //My Apple, View All Oranges, A Pear
}

```

arrays in PHP have an internal pointer which you can manipulate with [reset](http://de.php.net/manual/en/function.reset.php), [next](http://de.php.net/manual/en/function.next.php), [end](http://de.php.net/manual/en/function.end.php). Retrieving keys/values works with [key](http://de.php.net/manual/en/function.key.php) and [current](http://de.php.net/manual/en/function.current.php), but using [each](http://de.php.net/manual/en/function.each.php) might be better in many cases..