使用PHP简化HTML表格代码

Question

I have a webpage (created from within PHP files) that needs to display a table that is 30 rows long and allows the user to enter values for each of the 30 rows and then press a button to let php process what they have entered.

Anyway instead of having to write out a normal HTML form with a table that has 30 rows I wonder if their is any way to create this table in PHP with much less code.

SO as it is it looks something like

<form name="createtable" action="?page=createtable" method="POST" autocomplete="off">
    <table border='1'>
        <tr>
            <th> Weight </th>
            <th> CBM Min </th>
            <th> CBM Max </th>
            <th> Min </th>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <th> 1000 </th>
            <th> 0.1 </th>
            <th> 2.3 </th>
            <th> <input type=text name=min1> </th>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <th> 1500 </th>
            <th> 2.31 </th>
            <th> 3.5 </th>
            <th> <input type=text name=min2> </th>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <th> 2000 </th>
            <th> 3.51 </th>
            <th> 4.6 </th>
            <th> <input type=text name=min3> </th>
        </tr>
            ..... + 27 more rows
    </table>
</form>

I am currently just writing out the complete table like above, the values for weight, cbm min and max are not increasing at a standard rate so a normal loop would not work I guess, could these values be put into an array perhaps? My php is very rusty

Answer 1

Here is a possible solution.

/* this should contain all rows, a resultset from a database,
   or wherever you get the data from */
$rows = array(
    array(
      'weight' => 1000,
      'cbm_min' => 0.1,
      'cbm_max' => 2.3
    ),
    array(
      'weight' => 1500,
      'cbm_min' => 2.31,
      'cbm_max' => 3.5
    ),
    array(
      'weight' => 2000,
      'cbm_min' => 3.51,
      'cbm_max' => 4.6
    )
); 

?>
<form name="createtable" action="?page=createtable" method="POST" autocomplete="off">
  <table border='1'>
    <tr>
      <th> Weight </th>
      <th> CBM Min </th>
      <th> CBM Max </th>
      <th> Min </th>
    </tr>
<?php
$i = 1; // I'll use this to increment the input text name
foreach ($rows as $row) {
  /* Everything happening inside this foreach will loop for
     as many records/rows that are in the $rows array. */
 ?>
    <tr>
      <th> <?= (float) $row['weight'] ?> </th>
      <th> <?= (float) $row['cbm_min'] ?> </th>
      <th> <?= (float) $row['cbm_max'] ?> </th>
      <th> <input type=text name="min<?= (float) $i ?>"> </th>
    </tr>
  <?php
  $i++;
}
?>
  </table>
</form>
<?php
// Continue executing PHP