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Oct 30.2007

Got a quick preference question.

I have a lot of php code, and in my code I sometimes echo html tags. For example:

echo “<h1>booyah!</h1>”;

Now another way I do this is just ending my php code with a ?> and start it back up again later after my html. For example:

//some php code
?>
<h1>booyah</h1>
<?

Now I’m fairly inconsistent with this, is that a problem? Is there one method that just preforms better than the other or does it not really matter? Thanks!

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@Jeff_MottOct 30.2007 — The difference there hardly matters at all. But if you're building a large Web application, or even a moderate-sized application that you want to keep scalable, then you should keep *ALL* HTML out of your PHP code and use a template system instead. It's one of those good engineering practices, to keep parts modular and independent of each other.
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@Stephen_PhilbinOct 31.2007 — I would drop out of PHP parsing and output the tags as normal, but like Jeff said, there's not a great deal of difference anyway. The important thing is to be consistent.
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