Outputting HTML

Anon

What is the best way to output large ( i mean it! ) amounts of HTML code?

print '<html code starts here> ...
...
...
...
<html code ends here>';
print('<html code starts here> ...');
print('...');
print('...');
print('...');
print('<html code ends here>');
Something completey different

What do you think?

Anon

(1) looks good to me
Reason: only one function call (minimal overhead).
Possible Problem: there could be limit to the size of the string you can pass (64K)

Better yet, if its static code, just close the php block and reopen it after the html.
eg php code ... ?> your large html here <? more php code...
This is good coz the html is is not parsed through php at all.

sersun

From php.net:

PHP 4 now allows the use of PRINT <<<EOF, much the same way as PERL\'s PRINT EOF>>. When using this option there is no need to escape characters such as quotes. This is very useful for printing large amounts of HTML code e.g.

<pre>
print <<<EOF
<pre_tag here>
This is \"quoted text\"
More quoted stuff \"here\"
</pre_tag here>

EOF;
</pre>

Make sure not to indent the EOF; statement as this will cause parsing errors.

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jjoske

What about using an include. This will allow you to keep your code and html seperate.