Store each loop values into variable

PHP
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Hi,

I have a for loop like below


for ($x=0; $x<$ParticiDetails; $x++){

$empDetails= "<tr height='20'>
			   <td>".$empname."</td>
			   <td>".$designation."</td>
			   <td>".$email."</td>
			   	</tr>";

echo $empDetails
}

eg: $ParticiDetails=4, then $empDetails will print 4 times… But the problem is it will replace all the first 3 values and only will show final value, I need to store all the loop values into variable and all these variable finally store into another variable

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Hi salimali,

Create a variable with an empty string outside of your loop, and then you can append the new strings to it on each iteration to build up the final output:


$empDetails = '';

for ($x = 0; $x < $ParticiDetails; $x++) {
	$empDetails .= "<tr height='20'>
			   <td>".$empname."</td>
			   <td>".$designation."</td>
			   <td>".$email."</td>
			   	</tr>";
}

echo $empDetails;
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Hi fretburner, Thanks for your time,

I need to print all these values at a time… So if i did this, i will get the last loop value only

i have a mail function and a variable $message , These values should come in this $message = $empDetails . But i am getting only last loop only

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Using fretburner’s method the $empDetails variable would contain all of the values from the loop, not just the last one…

5

But while the mail is sending only last value is getting

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Without seeing more of your code, it’s difficult to help as I’m not sure what you’re trying to achieve.

You do realise that your loop is going to give you x identical copies of the table row, as you’re not changing the values of $empname, $designation and $email?

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I have like below

$message= “<html><head><title>HTML email</title></head>
<body style=‘margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;font-size:12px;color:#000;background-color:#E8E8E8;margin-bottom:0px;padding-bottom:0px;’>
<table cellpadding=‘0’ cellspacing=‘0’ width=‘100%’ bgcolor=‘#E8E8E8’ align=‘center’>”$empDetails"</table>

for example $x=2 , So the above will be like below

$message= "<html><head><title>HTML email</title></head>
<body style=‘margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;font-size:12px;color:#000;background-color:#E8E8E8;margin-bottom:0px;padding-bottom:0px;’>
<table cellpadding=‘0’ cellspacing=‘0’ width=‘100%’ bgcolor=‘#E8E8E8’ align=‘center’>
<tr height=‘20’>
<td>Employee name 2</td>
<td>Designation 2</td>
<td>Email 2</td>
</tr>
</table>

But i need like below

$message= “<html><head><title>HTML email</title></head>
<body style=‘margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;font-size:12px;color:#000;background-color:#E8E8E8;margin-bottom:0px;padding-bottom:0px;’>
<table cellpadding=‘0’ cellspacing=‘0’ width=‘100%’ bgcolor=‘#E8E8E8’ align=‘center’>
<tr height=‘20’>
<td>Employee name 1</td>
<td>Designation 1</td>
<td>Email 1</td>
</tr>”<tr height=‘20’>
<td>Employee name 2</td>
<td>Designation 2</td>
<td>Email 2</td>
</tr>"
</table>

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OK, so where do the values for $empname, $designation and $email come from? Are you getting those from a database?

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No, It’s from a form page which is in a JS, $empname, $designation and $email, These are the text field’s values from that form, And $x is the number of reaped that fields

For example, If $x=1, then it will be look like below (x=0,1)

<form>

Employee name : <input id=“empname” type=“text” name=“empname”><br/>
Designation : <input id="designation " type=“text” name="designation "><br/>
Email: <input id=“email” type=“text” name=“email”><br/>

Employee name : <input id=“empname” type=“text” name=“empname”><br/>
Designation : <input id="designation " type=“text” name="designation "><br/>
Email: <input id=“email” type=“text” name=“email”><br/>

</form>

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You can’t have multiple inputs with the same name, you either have to give them unique names or you can append square brackets ( ) to the name and PHP will create an array for you:


Employee name : <input id="empname" type="text" name="empname[]"><br/>
Designation : <input id="designation " type="text" name="designation[]"><br/>
Email: <input id="email" type="text" name="email"><br/>

Employee name : <input id="empname" type="text" name="empname[]"><br/>
Designation : <input id="designation " type="text" name="designation[]"><br/>
Email: <input id="email" type="text" name="email"><br/>



$employeeNames = $_POST['empname'];
// $employeeNames is now an array of names that you can loop over
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Yea it’s like this


$empname=$_REQUEST['empname'];
$designation=$_REQUEST['designation'];
$email=$_REQUEST['email'];
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Well, if you’re getting your form inputs as arrays, then you can do something like this:


$empDetails = ''; 

for ($x = 0; $x < $ParticiDetails; $x++) { 
    $empDetails .= "<tr height='20'> 
               <td>".$empname[$x]."</td> 
               <td>".$designation[$x]."</td> 
               <td>".$email[$x]."</td> 
                   </tr>"; 
}

Then you can output $empDetails within your HTML template, and it will output a table row for each employee.

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Thank you so much fretburner, It works :slight_smile:

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