Return html table in php function

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After investigating I found the way out. But honestly I can't understand why this code works. Thank you all for putting me on the right path.

Code:

function foobar_func($json_output){    $jsonurl = "http://xxxx/club/api/xxx/category/";    $json = file_get_contents($jsonurl,0,null,null);    $json_output = json_decode($json);    echo "<table>";    foreach ( $json_output->result as $result )    {        echo "<tr><td>".$result->id."</td><td>".$result->categoryKind."</td><td>".$result->ranking."</td>";    }    echo "</table>" ;    return $html;}add_shortcode( 'foobar', 'foobar_func' );

Source: stackoverflow.com

Answered By: sundsx

Method #2

Sure, here's an example PHP function that returns an HTML table:

php
function generate_table($data) {
    $html = '<table>';
    $html .= '<tr><th>Name</th><th>Email</th><th>Phone</th></tr>';
    foreach ($data as $row) {
        $html .= '<tr>';
        $html .= '<td>' . $row['name'] . '</td>';
        $html .= '<td>' . $row['email'] . '</td>';
        $html .= '<td>' . $row['phone'] . '</td>';
        $html .= '</tr>';
    }
    $html .= '</table>';
    return $html;
}

This function takes an array of data as input, where each element of the array represents a row in the table with keys "name", "email", and "phone". The function generates an HTML table with headers and data rows, and returns the HTML code as a string.

You can use this function like this:

php
$data = array(
    array('name' => 'John', 'email' => 'john@example.com', 'phone' => '555-1234'),
    array('name' => 'Mary', 'email' => 'mary@example.com', 'phone' => '555-5678'),
    array('name' => 'Bob', 'email' => 'bob@example.com', 'phone' => '555-9012'),
);

echo generate_table($data);

This will output an HTML table with the data in the $data array.