Okay, another everyday snippet of PHP code tweaked.
We all use the following
<?php
foreach($array as $item){
// Do something
}
?>
Which works fine, sometimes the // Do something gets complicated with HTML
<?php
foreach($array as $item){
echo '<tr>';
echo '<td>'.$item->first_name.'</td>';
echo '<td>'.$item->last_name.'</td>';
echo '<td><a href="'. $item->name .'">'.$item->email.'</a></td>';
echo '</tr>';
}
?>
After a while it gets messy and can be easy to have errors in your HTML which your editor might not pick up.
How about this for a solution – its an Alternative Form
<?php foreach($array as $item) : ?> <tr> <td><?= $item->first_name ?></td> <td><?= $item->last_name ?></td> <td><a href="<?= $item->email ?>"><?= $item->email ?></a></td> </tr> <?php endforeach ?>
There are a few other ways but this reads really well. If you are looking to store the HTML as a variable before echoing it out have a look at ob_start(). However, creating chunks of HTML and passing them from place to another isn’t really good form – see separations of concerns and MVC