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jasenmichael
jasenmichael

Reputation: 428

Easy way to separate HTML from PHP code

I would like to separate the html and just use echo for easier further styling/editing this html snippet, like this

<li>
  <a href="<?php echo $filepath; ?>"><?php echo $file; ?></a>
</li>

Here is my current code that works, but I can not easily edit the html inside the PHP code 

<?php

$dir = ".";
$exclude = array( ".","..",".*","*.php" );
if (is_dir($dir)) {
    $files = scandir($dir);
    foreach($files as $file){
        if(!in_array($file,$exclude)){
            $filepath = str_replace(' ', '%20', $file);
            echo '<li><a href=' . $dir . '/' . $filepath . '>' . $file . '</a></li>';

        }
    }
}

?>

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1370

Answers (1)

Phil
Phil

Reputation: 164766

I highly recommend PHP's alternative syntax for templating. For example

$dir = ".";
$exclude = array( ".","..",".*","*.php" );
if (is_dir($dir)) {
    $files = array_diff(scandir($dir), $exclude);
    foreach ($files as $file) : ?>
    <li>
        <a href="<?= $dir ?>/<?= urlencode($file) ?>">
            <?= $file ?>
        </a>
    </li>
    <?php endforeach;
}

Upvotes: 4

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