Looking for proper way to inject HTML table into PHP code

Question

Let me start by saying that i'm sorry if this is a complete noob question.

while using phpStorm, I have an array of $teams and by invoking foreach loop I tried to put each of the array section into an HTML table

here is what I did so far

I am getting cannot use [] for reading, I can't find an answer how to do that properly, thx in advance.

<table>
    <tr>
        <th>Team</th>
        <th>ID</th>
    </tr>

    <?php
        include dirname(__FILE__) . "/stats.php";
        global $teams;

        foreach ($teams['data'] as $team) {
            echo "<tr>" ;
                echo   "<td> $team['name']</td>" ;
                echo   "<td> $team ['id']</td> " ;
            echo "</tr>";
        }
    ?>
</table>

In double quoted strings, you need to either remove the single quotes when fetching from an array `" $team[name]"` or wrap the complete expression in curly braces: `" {$team['name']}"` — M. Eriksson, Nov 20 '17 at 16:02
Probably a duplicate: https://stackoverflow.com/q/3820258/1531971 (among many others) — , Nov 20 '17 at 16:20
**Problem can no longer be reproduced**: see comment below: ["_Thanks, that did the trick._"](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47396094/looking-for-proper-way-to-inject-html-table-into-php-code#comment81745846_47396165) — Sᴀᴍ Onᴇᴌᴀ, Nov 20 '17 at 17:23

Philipp · Answer 1 · 2017-11-20T16:05:43.343

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To get the string substitution working correct, you have to suround it with {} if it's something more complex than a simple var - especially array access.

 echo "<td> {$team['name']}</td>";

edited Nov 20 '17 at 16:05

answered Nov 20 '17 at 16:02

Philipp

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Removing the single quotes around the key works as well, but braces is, in my opinion, more readable (and less error prone). – M. Eriksson Nov 20 '17 at 16:03
Thanks, that did the trick. – Yoni hodeffi Nov 20 '17 at 16:13

Looking for proper way to inject HTML table into PHP code

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