How does changing the last four shirts' order work?

This is more for my reference than anything else, but if it helps someone else like me then great.

As mentioned in the other posts, when the if statement in the loop returns "true" for the first time it means we have one of the last four shirts from the array.

The get_list_view_html function returns the HTML for that particular shirt and stores it in the $list_view_html variable where it is held and then the loop runs again.

After the next loop the get_list_view_html function returns the HTML for the next shirt in the array and that is held in the $list_view_html variable also. We keep looping and storing the HTML in the $list_view_html variable until we reach the end of the array.

Now we have all the HTML for the last four shirts in the $list_view_html variable.

The order in which the shirts display depends on whether you concatenate the get_list_view_html function after (to the right of) or before (to the left of) the $list_view_html variable.

I think many people, particularly those who have the mind of a natural coder will find this an extremely basic concept to grasp, that a child could understand without too much explaining, but for others like me and the guy in the other post who compared it to Voodoo it's completely bewildering, it took me quite a bit of time to figure it out and I had to draw pictures and everything!

It helped me to visualise it this way. Think of those children's wooden blocks with a letter of the alphabet printed on each one representing one single return value from the get_list_view_function.

1. You take the first one "A" and place it on its own.

2. The alphabet reads from left to right so for next block "B" you place it to the right of "A".

3. We now have two blocks together and these multiple blocks will from now on represent the $list_view_html variable.

4. The next block "C" is added to the right side and now the multiple blocks read A, B, C.

5. We do the same for "D" and now we have "A", "B", "C", "D".

If at the beginning we instead placed the "B" to the LEFT of "A" and then placed the "C" to the LEFT of "B" and so on, then the blocks would read "D", "C", "B", "A".

This is exactly the same with the way the $list_view_html variable and the return value of the get_list_view_html function is being concatenated