Is there a better way to do this in PHP

Question

i am using this code to generate rows depending on the value in the database, I'm sure there is a more efficient way of doing this but I'm unsure how!

if ($empty == 1) {
    echo "<li class='col-sm-4'><div class='horse-wrap empty'>Empty</div></li>";
}
if ($empty == 2) {
    echo "<li class='col-sm-4'><div class='horse-wrap empty'>Empty</div></li>";
    echo "<li class='col-sm-4'><div class='horse-wrap empty'>Empty</div></li>";
}
if ($empty == 3) {
    echo "<li class='col-sm-4'><div class='horse-wrap empty'>Empty</div></li>";
    echo "<li class='col-sm-4'><div class='horse-wrap empty'>Empty</div></li>";
    echo "<li class='col-sm-4'><div class='horse-wrap empty'>Empty</div></li>";
}
if ($empty == 4) {
    echo "<li class='col-sm-4'><div class='horse-wrap empty'>Empty</div></li>";
    echo "<li class='col-sm-4'><div class='horse-wrap empty'>Empty</div></li>";
    echo "<li class='col-sm-4'><div class='horse-wrap empty'>Empty</div></li>";
    echo "<li class='col-sm-4'><div class='horse-wrap empty'>Empty</div></li>";
}

Answer 1

You can do it using for loop:

$empty = 5;
$str = '';
for(i=0;$i<$empty;$i++) {
    $str .= "<li class='col-sm-4'><div class='horse-wrap empty'>Empty</div></li>";
}
echo $str;