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If you haven't gotten around to checking out the video, here's my explanation:

foreach is doing this:

• Going through each item in your array
• Putting that item in the variable that you define in the loop statement to hold that single item
• Running the code in the braces on that single item

So you defined your array, or it was defined for you, and that's the first part of the statement.

You need to define a variable to hold each item each time through the loop, though, so what you're doing with that "as $whatever" section is saying "Use $whatever to hold each item as you apply the following code to it"

That way you can access it in the code you want to execute (in the code block after it) on each item.

So it makes a lot of sense to name things in the plural as your array, then just naturally use the singular as the variable you define with as Like so:

<?php

foreach ($shirts as $single_shirt_from_the_shirts_array) {
    starch($single_shirt_from_the_shirts_array);
}

// or more appropriately....

foreach ($chickens as $chicken) {
    behead($chicken);
}

foreach ($actions as $action) {
    reaction($action);
}

// or you could get (relatively) clever-but-ambiguous (and much harder to read)

foreach ($benjamins as $bill {
    rain($bill);
}