HTML inside the scripts

jaddy

Hi.
Which is better and more practical, to output the html inside the php scritp:

<?php
$var1=5;
echo "<table width=600 bgcolor=white>";
$var2=10;
?>

to split the html code from the php script:

<?php
$var1=5;
?>
<table width=600 bgcolor=white>
<?php
$var2=10;
?>

Thx

sarahk

Better still, remove the presentation from the logic and use templates! There are quite a few options and some tutorials. I use phplib because it was around when I started but more have turned up since then. Potentially they make your site slower but i think the difference for a well constructed html page is minute.

My php scripts have NO html on them. That's all handled elsewhere. Much more readable, maintainable etc. I did have some tiny pages which were coded all in one place but before long the logic got hairy as I added more features and I transferred them out.

Also, visit http://www.richinstyle.com and get to grips with stylesheets as they make your html alot more efficient.

jayant

Its mostly about personal preferences. There isn't any THE RIGHT WAY 🙂

Weedpacket

If you are going to mix HTML and PHP (which PHP was designed to handle, after all), with largish chunks of HTML and scattered bits of PHP, then "splitting" the HTML out does have a slight performance edge over echo (whether multiline, heredoc, or horrible ugly swarms of echoes from here to the horizon).

As sarahk suggests, templates are more maintainable: nice if you have the time in the first place.

bormuff98

As is often teh case, whatever suits you best is the best way to do it 🙂 My code will contain a mixture of the two "ways" that you describe, depending sometimes on what I am trying to achieve.

jaddy

Thx,

But I heard once that the second type (splitting the Html from the script) is better since it is not a PHP code, and this will take less time because of the less PHP parsing, is this true??

Also where can I find some samples of those templates??

Thank you...