Re: General PHP question about emitting HTML

It seems that most editors like the code better if you have HTML with
embedded PHP. In this case with control statements, I like the alternate
syntax a bit better:

<?php if (somevar == someval) : ?>
<b>some text that indicates that somevar is equal to someval</b>
<?php else: ?>
<b>some text that indicates that somevar is not equal to someval</b>
<?php endif; ?>


On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 2:51 PM, Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I suspect that the include approach would perform marginally better but
probably not by a lot.

Personally I've done a mixture of both. If there are large blocks of
straight HTML I inline it - if there are lots of conditional "bits" I tend
to use print/echo because it is less messy.

What I should do of course is use Smarty (or similar) for all of it but
most of my stuff is for short term use so maintenance is not an issue.


Jon Paris

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On Jan 12, 2018, at 2:33 PM, David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I've got a question about best practices ...

If I've got a PHP function that would generate HTML, is it better to

have the function emit the HTML using echo statements, or just include the
HTML inline.

For instance ... would it be better to do this:

<?php

if (somevar == someval) {
echo "<b>some text that indicates that somevar is equal to someval</b>";
} else {
echo "<b>some text that indicates that somevar is not equal to

someval</b>";

}
?>

or

<?php

if (somevar == someval) {
?>
<b>some text that indicates that somevar is equal to someval</b>
<?php
} else {
?>
<b>some text that indicates that somevar is not equal to someval</b>
<?php
}
?>

Thanks!

david


?>


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