Question

I am looking to see if there is a smart or optimal way to try and do this for loop which so far I cannot get it to work.

I am trying to do it this way to stop me repeating code however if its not possible then I will just have to repeat code.

Here is what I tried

if(!isset($staff_rows)
for ($i=0; $i < 5; $i++)
else
for ($i=0; $i < $staff_rows; $i++)

So basically I want my forloop to use a variable $staff_rows if it is set otherwise just use default value of 5.

This is the error message

Parse error : syntax error, unexpected T_FOR in

Any ideas?

Thanks

Answer 1

the simplest way.

        $staff_rows = 5;

        // your code to change staff_rows 

        for ($i=0; $i <  $staff_rows; $i++) {
          // do something
        }