Question

I was wondering if there was a way that I can declare a variable at the top of my php file that contains some ‘array stuff’ and have it used in a foreach loop below somewhere?
For example:

$variable = 'Here is some text, and here is the value:'.$items->value.'.';


foreach ( $somearray as $items ) {
echo $variable;
}

*note: I am using ezsql for database actions, hence the $items->value variable….

Make sense? I’m just trying to make my file easy to change for other situations… or is there a better way?

Thanks for looking and for your help.

Answer 1

The nicest way to do this would, I think, be printf. It’s not exactly what you asked for, but I think it will make your code cleaner.

$variable = 'Here is some text, and here is the value:%s.';

foreach ($somearray as $items) {
    printf($variable, $items->value);
}

The value passed as the second argument to printf will be substituted into the code.