<?php for ($i=1; $i < 10; $i++) { echo "<a href=\"something.php?id=$i\">No $i</a>"; }

Am I right am I right?

Looks complicated? Hell yeah. Truth is, there’s a much simpler way to achieve the same goal. I learned this trick from Wordpress’ Loop. Check this out.

Let’s take a look at this piece of code, in here we’re doing a For loop:

<ul>
<?php
for ($i=1; $i<10; $i++) {
    echo "<li><a href=\"?p=$i\">Go to page # $i</a></li>";
}
?>
</ul>

As simple as that looks, the echo command could be a little tricky because we often have to use double quote and single quote characters inside. Debugging can be a pain in the ass.

An approach I propose: the Wordpress way. Here’s how:

<ul>
<?php
for ($i=1; $i<10; $i++) { ?>
    <li><a href="?p=<?php echo $i;?>">Go to page # <?php echo $i;?> </a></li>
<?php }
?>
</ul>

This way we exclude the HTML tags from the PHP loop. Wow I can’t really describe that, if you do PHP you know what I mean. Now you can HTML not inside the echo command.

Wordpress is using this approach on templating and I find it very easy to use once you get used to it. So why don’t you give it a try and let us know what you think :)

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