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PHP

Posted by Stu Cowley
Stu Cowley
26,287 Points

How Can I Concatenate My Code?

Hey guys,

I'm wondering how I can concatenate the two functions in my code (see code below) as I feel that I'm breaking the DRY principal.

<?php

  function get_design_team_table_html($employee_id, $employee) {

    $output = "";
    $output = $output . "<tr>";
    $output = $output . '<td class="text-muted">';
    $output = $output . $des_team["name"];
    $output = $output . "</td>";
    $output = $output . '<td class="text-right text-muted"><span class="text-muted">$</span>';
    $output = $output . $des_team["age"];
    $output = $output . "</td>";
    $output = $output . "</tr>";

    return $output;

  }

  $designTeam = array();

  $des_team[101] = array( "name" => "Steve", "age" => 25 );
  $des_team[102] = array( "name" => "John", "age" => 38 );
  $des_team[103] = array( "name" => "Craig", "age" => 29 );


# Here's what I want concatenated with the above function.
  function get_get_development_team_table_html($dev_team_id, $dev_team) {

    $output = "";
    $output = $output . "<tr>";
    $output = $output . '<td class="text-muted">';
    $output = $output . $dev_team["name"];
    $output = $output . "</td>";
    $output = $output . '<td class="text-right text-muted"><span class="text-muted">$</span>';
    $output = $output . $dev_team["age"];
    $output = $output . "</td>";
    $output = $output . "</tr>";

    return $output;

  }

  $dev_team = array();

  $dev_team[101] = array( "name" => "Jason", "age" => 30 );
  $dev_team[102] = array( "name" => "Pete", "age" => 46 );
  $dev_team[103] = array( "name" => "Sam", "age" => 34 );

?>

Any advice on how I can concatenate these functions would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance,

Stu : )

1 Answer

thomascawthorn
thomascawthorn
22,986 Points
thomascawthorn
thomascawthorn
22,986 Points

Are these not exactly the same function just with different names? It looks like you're already half way there with the arguments of your first function! 

<?php

printEmployeeTableRow($employeeID, $employee)
{
    // do the code
}

Then you can call it from wherever!

Also this:

<?php

$designTeam

is MUCH better than this

<?php

$des_team

It's a few more characters but 1 million times more readable. Also watch out for starting a function name with 'get'. More often than not (especially in wordpress), functions that begin with 'get' return an array or object and don't echo anything to the screen. Just a little thing :-)