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John Hirleman
John Hirleman
11,378 Points
Posted by John Hirleman
John Hirleman
11,378 Points

How to add the href for each icon?

I'm sure other people wondered how to do it, so here's how I did it.

  1. Turn the $social_icons array into an associative array, like so...
<?php

$social_icons = array(
  'twitter' => 'http://www.twitter.com', 
  'facebook' => 'http://www.facebook.com', 
  'google' => 'http://www.google.com'
);

?>
  1. Then down in your foreach() loop change argument to be set as the $key and $value of the $social_icons array.
<ul class="social">
        <?php
          foreach($social_icons as $key => $value){
        ?>
          <li><a href="<?php echo $value ?>"><span class="icon <?php echo $key ?>"></span></a></li>
        <?php
          }
        ?>
      </ul>
Jeff Lemay
Jeff Lemay
14,268 Points
Jeff Lemay
Jeff Lemay
14,268 Points

Good stuff, John! Thanks for sharing the example!

1 Answer

John Hirleman
John Hirleman
11,378 Points
John Hirleman
John Hirleman
11,378 Points

Found this: https://teamtreehouse.com/community/how-can-i-also-loop-through-the-href-for-different-social-links-in-each-list

...and other's have found a bunch of different ways to do it. I was just wondering if the way I did it was any easier? Seems you can have either a more complex array, or a more complex code block for the loop. Are there any best practice approaches to this?