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[Tekron-X]

Hey guys I need some help here.

If I want PHP to generate the html on my web page do i need to echo it out like this

<?
echo "<p>whatever</p>";
?>

or can I just do this

<?
<p>Whatever</p>
?>

[Tekron-X]

Sry but I need to know which is better or which could be done b/c I need to start on this web page 🙂

[wilsonodk]

Well, you can echo if you like or you can escape out of PHP whenever you need to insert HTML

take a look at this simple example

<!-- 
  I've got some HTML up here in these parts
  maybe it's my head info and begining body tags
-->
<?php
  // Now I escape into PHP
  if ($var == 'foo') {
  // escape back to HTML
?>
<p class="cssIsFun">my variable is foo</p>
<?php
  // Now I'm back into php
  } elseif ($var == 'bar') {
  // back to HTML
?>
<p class="cssIsFun">my variable is bar</p>
<?php
  // Back to PHP
  } else {
  // back to HTML
?>
<p class="cssIsFun">my variable is something other than foo bar.</p>
<?php
  // make sure to close that if statement
  }
?>

This is just a quick example, in reality you could do this much more concisely.
However, it does show the power of escaping into and out of PHP.

WARNING:
Make sure you keep track of where you are, when escaping you can often forget curly brackets and end PHP tags

[Tekron-X]

Thx I think I want to echo the html though b/c I want my php code to generate html.