Re: General PHP question about emitting HTML

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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