php dynamic creation nested divs

Question

hi i would like to create nested divs dynamically, preferably without javascript

so if you have n divs, div1 contains div2 which contains div3 which etc ...

how could I code that in php ?

Tom

Answer 1

Here is a simple loop example using $n = 3. You can change $n to any number and it will nest div tags for you. I'm not entirely sure why you would want to do this, but here it is.

$openingTags = '';
$closingTags = '';

$n = 3;

for ($i = 0; $i < $n; ++$i) {
    $openingTags .= '<div id="div' . $i . '">';
    $closingTags .= '</div>';
}

echo $openingTags . 'Hello World' . $closingTags;

Answer 2

function recursiveDiv($num)

  $html = '<div id="div'.$num.'">%s</div>';

  for($i = $num - 1; $i >= 1; $i--) {
    $html = '<div id="div'.$i.'">'.$html.'</div>';
  }
  return $html;
}

echo sprintf(recursiveDiv(5), 'Hello World');

Untested but should give you want you want.

Answer 3

This code should allow you to create the nested divs and also populate them with content. Replaced orginal code with below, this should work but its untested

<?php
$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM table");
$count = mysql_num_rows($result);
$html = '';
$end_html = '';
while($row = mysql_fetch_object($result)){
  $html .= '<div id="div'.$count.'">'.$row->textfield; # any database column
  $end_html .= '</div>';
  $count--;
}
echo $html . $end_html;