One code inside two different PHP blocks

As long as you close your curly braces somewhere on the page, there won't be an error. If you forget to close your curly brace (remember to open a php tag and close it, i.e.

<?php } ?>

you should be good to go without errors as long as the rest of your code is valid.

Hi Shafeeq,

Just remember that that role of PHP here is to spit out HTML code. What is ultimately produced by a PHP script is pure HTML, and that is what is read by the browser.

There's more than 1 way to skin a cat when it comes to accomplishing this. Rather than opening and closing PHP blocks as Hampton did here:

<?php
    foreach($social_icons as $icon) {
    ?>
        <i><a href=""><span class="icon <?php echo $icon ?>"></span></a></li>
    <?php
    }
?>

He could have also used PHP to echo out the HTML and concatenated the string with the PHP variable, like this:

<?php
    foreach($social_icons as $icon) {
        echo '<i><a href=""><span class="icon' . $icon .'"></span></a></li>';
    }
?>

It's probably less code to do it the second way, but the first way may give more cues with HTML syntax highlighting in a good text editor. There are still yet more ways to accomplish this, but just remember that the logic is not necessarily what is inside a specific PHP block, you may have to read more a script at times to figure out what is really being produced.