Question

Hi I think this is just a syntax problem, but I might be doing something PHP isn’t designed to do.

I’m trying to draw an HTML table, using an array to populate the table. The headers for example.

Where $headers is an array of headers I have attempted:

$html_table = '
                <table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2">
                    <tr>
                        foreach($headers as $header)
                        {
                        echo "<th> $header </th>";                          
                        }
                    </tr>
';

The idea being to generate:

 <table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2">
    <tr>
        <th>Heading 1</th>
        <th>Heading 2</th>
        <th>Heading 3</th>
        ...
        <th>Heading 99</th>
    </tr>

Simply by later asking for
$html_table

Suffice is to say at the moment I get a single headed column with “$header” in it, becuase the loop is not running inside the variable equation.

The reason I’m storing the HTML as a variable like this is because I want to concatenate (usage?) it with other generated html, i.e.

$html_table .= '</table>';

later on (of course the actual bit in the middle is more complicated, to do with retreiving data from databases to populate the table.

Where am I going wrong? Thanks

Answer 1

take the foreach out of the quotes

$html_table = '
            <table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2">
                <tr>';
foreach($headers as $header){
    $html_table .= "<th> $header </th>";                          
}
$html_table .='
                </tr>
';