HTML in for loop with variable

Question

I was wondering if it was possible to use HTML inside a for loop while using a variable.

So this works at the moment:

<?php
[...]

for ($x=0 ; $x <= $nr_of_bookitems; $x +=2) {
    echo get_book($x)->meta_value;
}

[...]
?>

But this doesn't give me the result I want, because I want it to be urls.

So I want it like this:

<?php
[...]

for ($x=0 ; $x <= $nr_of_bookitems; $x +=2) {
    <a href="<?php echo get_book($x)->meta_value;; ?>" target="_blank">Text</a>
}

[...]
?>

But this doesn't work because I haven't close the php tags and HTML doesn't do anything. But when I close the php tags, it seems I can't use the variable $x anymore:

<?php
[...]

for ($x=0 ; $x <= $nr_of_bookitems; $x +=2) ?>
    <a href="<?php echo get_book($x)->meta_value;; ?>" target="_blank">Text</a>

<?php 
}

[...]
?>

I couldn't find a solution on the internet. I do have seen some examples with foreach like this one, but i'm not sure how to use that in this case if even possible.

Asmir Zahirovic · Accepted Answer · 2016-08-28 01:25:42Z

1

Try this:

for ($x=0 ; $x <= $nr_of_bookitems; $x +=2)
{
    $meta_value = get_book($x)->meta_value;
    echo '<a href="' . $meta_value . '" target="_blank">Text</a>';
}

answered Aug 28, 2016 at 1:25

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Hedva Over a year ago

You just made me really happy. Sometimes the solutions are much easier than I think they are.

jmdev · Accepted Answer · 2016-08-28 02:09:23Z

0

This should work as well:

for ($x=0 ; $x <= $nr_of_bookitems; $x +=2)
{
    ?>
    <a href="<?php echo get_book($x)->meta_value;; ?>" target="_blank">Text</a>
    <?php 
}

I think the only problem was you left off the opening curly bracket.

answered Aug 28, 2016 at 2:09

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