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PHP

nicholas maddren
nicholas maddren
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Posted by nicholas maddren
nicholas maddren
12,793 Points

ID Question

If I use a php script to loop an item listing template I have does that mean that the template cannot use ID's as it will be displayed more than once?

Do all the html elements need to be class's instead of ID's?

2 Answers

Andrew Showalter
Andrew Showalter
14,028 Points
Andrew Showalter
Andrew Showalter
14,028 Points

You could use ID's. What you could do is use some sort of variable that has an initial value of something like $1 = 1.

Then, you could use that on an ID element to make each unique by adding 1 to the counter each time it loops. For example:

<?php
$i = 0;
foreach($items as $item){
    $i = $i + 1;
    echo '<div class="someclass" id="someid-"' . $i . '">' . $item['title'] . '</div>'; 
};
?>

Basically, you are using an $i variable counter to increase by 1 each time the items loops through to make that individual item have a unique id.

Andrew Showalter
Andrew Showalter
14,028 Points
Andrew Showalter
Andrew Showalter
14,028 Points

Edited slightly, but this should so about what you are trying to accomplish.

Cole Wilkes
Cole Wilkes
4,556 Points
Cole Wilkes
Cole Wilkes
4,556 Points

I don't follow your question entirely. However, you can have multiple html elements with the same class. Any time the id attribute is used it must be unique to one html element.