Question

I have things saved in a database such as:

Apple Banana Orange Pear

They are all saved in the database on one line, separated by spaces.

I want to retrieve this information from the database, and put them into html like so:

<li>Apple</li>
<li class="alt">Banana</li>
<li>Orange</li>
<li class="alt">Pear</li>

How would I go about doing this? I’ve looked into explode() and then foreach, is that the best way?

$fruits = explode(" ", $q['fruits']);

$i = 1;

foreach( $fruits as $fruit ){

    if ($i % 2 == 0){
        $alt = ' class="alt"';
    }else{
        $alt = '';
    }

    echo "<li" . $alt . ">" . $value . "</li>";

$i++;
}

Answer 1

If $q['fruits'] contains string "Apple Banana Orange Pear" then…

Code:

$fruits = explode(" ", $q['fruits']);
$s = true;
foreach ($fruits as $fruit) {
  if ($s) echo "<li>$fruit</li>\n";
  else echo "<li class=\"alt\">$fruit</li>\n";
  $s = !$s; 
  }

Output:

<li>Apple</li>
<li class="alt">Banana</li>
<li>Orange</li>
<li class="alt">Pear</li>