how to force foreach reset in php

You could do something around these lines (and avoid the limitations of recursion):

while (True) {
    $reset = False;
    foreach ($rows as $row) {
      if(something true) {
         continue;
      } else {
          $reset = True;
          break;
      }
    }
    if ( ! $reset ) {
        break; # break out of the while(true)
    }
    # otherwise the foreach loop is `reset`
}

It seems that reset inside a foreach has no effect.

You can implement this if you make your own Traversable.