Make a list form php string

Question

I have this code that write inside the variable $products a string of products name:

$products = '';
foreach($order->pad_products as $product) $products .= " $product->title";

When I print $products inside a HTML email body and send the email with PHP, in this case, I sand $msg, I see the name of the products all in one line.

$msg = "
  <html>
    <head>
      <style type='text/css'></style>
    </head>
    <body>
      <h1>Sent!</h1>
      <p>$name thank you</p>
        $products
    </body>
  </html>";

How can I make a list of these products? and, can I delete one of these?

As you use `html` markup - add `
` or create a `
` for example. — u_mulder, Sep 05 '18 at 08:38
Possible duplicate of [How create responsive email that send from php?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51944973/how-create-responsive-email-that-send-from-php) — Ronnie Oosting, Sep 05 '18 at 08:38
@RonnieOosting no, it's about how write php variable. I not about how send email. — Marco Romano, Sep 05 '18 at 08:46
@u_mulder thank you for your help, but in this particular situation I can't write in `html` I have to use the variable in `php`. good solution it's the one below. — Marco Romano, Sep 05 '18 at 08:47

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 05 '18 at 08:38

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To display them as a list, you simply have to create a list using HTML:

<?php
echo "<ul>";
foreach($order->pad_products as $product) {
    echo "<li>" . $product->title . "</li>";
}
echo "</ul>";
?>

Alternative, applying to your current code

<?php
$products = "";
foreach($order->pad_products as $product) {
    $products .= "<li>".$product->title."</li>";
}
$msg = "
<html>
<body>
  <h1>Sent!</h1>
    $products
</body>
</html>";

answered Sep 05 '18 at 08:38

Pieter De Clercq

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wee, thank you! this work! was easy I didn't try this possibility! thank you!! Do you know How I can delete the last list row? – Marco Romano Sep 05 '18 at 08:45
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@MarcoRomano take a look at this https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21899944/php-how-to-skip-last-element-in-foreach-loop – Pieter De Clercq Sep 05 '18 at 08:47

adrian · Answer 2 · 2018-09-06T13:41:03.967

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ProcessWire (which you tagged this with) lets you do this with pop():

<?php
echo "<ul>";
$products = $order->pad_products;
$products->pop(); 
foreach($products as $product) {
    echo "<li>" . $product->title . "</li>";
}
echo "</ul>";
?>

Another option is to count the number of items and limit to one less than that. You should be able to use ->count() but I don't know what pad_products is, so if that doesn't work, you could just do count($order->pad_products)

<?php
echo "<ul>";
$limit = $order->pad_products->count() - 1;
foreach($order->pad_products("limit=$limit") as $product) {
    echo "<li>" . $product->title . "</li>";
}
echo "</ul>";
?>

edited Sep 06 '18 at 13:41

answered Sep 05 '18 at 22:15

adrian

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No problem - I added another option for you as well. There are many different ways to achieve this :) – adrian Sep 06 '18 at 13:42
nice, I will try to use. At moment for delete the Shipping Cost row I have use this: `$products = ''; foreach($order->pad_products as $product) $products .= "
".$product->title."

Marco Romano

Sep 06 '18 at 15:30

Make a list form php string

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