Making a navigation using arrays

Question

I know this is going to be voted as a bad question but I always have trouble with these. I am making a php navigation using arrays and my code keeps falling short, mainly in foreach statements. Hopefully if you look you can see where I am trying to go

<html>
    <head>
        <title>navigation</title>
        <?php
            $pages = array("index.html" => "Home");
        ?>
    </head>
    <body>
        <ul>
            <?php
                foreach($pages as $link => $page){
                    echo '<li> <a href=" $link "> $page </a> </li>';
                }
            ?>
        </ul>
    </body>
</html>

You're trying to reference variables within single quotes. – ElefantPhace Dec 22 '14 at 21:50 — ElefantPhace, Dec 22 '14 at 21:50

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 22 '14 at 21:49

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$link and $page aren't going to get parsed here, since they're within single quotes:

echo '<li> <a href=" $link "> $page </a> </li>';

Do this instead:

echo '<li> <a href="' .$link . '"> ' . $page . '</a> </li>';

http://php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php

answered Dec 22 '14 at 21:49

mopo922

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or `echo "
$page

Pevara

Dec 22 '14 at 21:52

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Yep, that works too. I prefer "my" way just so I can always have double-quotes in my HTML. – mopo922 Dec 22 '14 at 21:53

Thank you, I always forget that part – Dré Ellis Dec 22 '14 at 21:54

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 22 '14 at 21:52

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Change this:

echo '<li> <a href=" $link "> $page </a> </li>';

To this:

echo "<li> <a href=\"$link\"> $page </a> </li>";

And you should be good to go.

Check up on strings, particular interpolation http://php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php

answered Dec 22 '14 at 21:52

ElefantPhace

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Making a navigation using arrays

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