PHP loop X amount of times

Question

I have a string called $columns which dynamically gets a value from 1 to 7. I want to create a loop of for however many times

Answer 1

for ($k = 0 ; $k < $columns; $k++){ echo '<td></td>'; }

Answer 2

If $columns is a string you can cast to int and use a simple for loop

for ($i=1; $i<(int)$columns; $i++) {
   echo '<td></td>';
}

Answer 3

Here's a more readable way to achieve this:

foreach(range(1,$columns) as $index) {
   //do your magic here
}

Answer 4

You can run it through a for loop easily to achieve this

$myData = array('val1', 'val2', ...);

for( $i = 0; $i < intval($columns); $i++)
{
    echo "<td>" . $myData[$i] . "</td>";
}

Answer 5

If you just need to use number of repeat count:

for ($i = 0; $i < 5; $i++){
    // code to repeat here
}

Answer 6

A for loop will work:

for ($i = 0; $i < $columns; $i++) {
    ...
}