I feel compelled to give a more elegant way using heredoc than the other comment:
<ul>
<?php foreach($list as $item): echo
<<<ITEM
<li id="itm-$item[number]">Item $item[name]</li>
ITEM;
endforeach; ?>
</ul>
Which works better with multi line blocks, as you only need one overall php tag.
(please don't omit the closing </li> tag despite it being legal, personal preference)
Alternative syntax for control structures
(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)
PHP offers an alternative syntax for some of its control
structures; namely, if,
while, for,
foreach, and switch.
In each case, the basic form of the alternate syntax is to change
the opening brace to a colon (:) and the closing brace to
endif;, endwhile;,
endfor;, endforeach;, or
endswitch;, respectively.
<?php if ($a == 5): ?>
A is equal to 5
<?php endif; ?>
In the above example, the HTML block "A is equal to 5" is nested within an
if statement written in the alternative syntax. The
HTML block would be displayed only if $a is equal to 5.
The alternative syntax applies to else and
elseif as well. The following is an
if structure with elseif and
else in the alternative format:
<?php
if ($a == 5):
echo "a equals 5";
echo "...";
elseif ($a == 6):
echo "a equals 6";
echo "!!!";
else:
echo "a is neither 5 nor 6";
endif;
?>Note:
Mixing syntaxes in the same control block is not supported.
Warning
Any output (including whitespace) between a switch
statement and the first case will result in a syntax
error. For example, this is invalid:
<?php switch ($foo): ?>
<?php case 1: ?>
...
<?php endswitch; ?>
Whereas this is valid, as the trailing newline after the
switch statement is considered part of the closing
?> and hence nothing is output between the
switch and case:
<?php switch ($foo): ?>
<?php case 1: ?>
...
<?php endswitch; ?>
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toxyy ¶
2 years ago
