Question

In ruby on Rails, you have the option to create cleaner and well formated output:

<div>
      <%= 3.times do -%>
      <%= "Hello World" -%>
      <%= end -%>
</div>

and the output will be:

<div>
   Hello World
   Hello World
   Hello World
</div>

But when i do the same thing in php:

    <div>
          <?php for ($i =0; $ < 3;$i++): ?>
          <?php echo "Hello World" ?>
          <?php endfor; ?>
    </div>

I get something like this:

<div>       Hello World
 Hello World
       Hello World
    </div>

is there something like rubys “-%>” in php that help me acheive the same thing?

Answer 1

Keep in mind that PHP is a preprocessor, so basically it just appends some stuff to your files. This means that to achieve the correct “style” or “cleanness” in your file you will need to add newlines etc. to ( randomly ) generated stuff.

for instance for every loop add \n to the end of the string so it will print it on a new line of the file. If you want a tab you could do \t and so forth