Outputting HTML in PHP?

redrabbit

Simple and quick question taht I am always struggling with.

I have a page called basket.php that is supposed to output the basket. So I have all the html and then it gets to the part in the page where I neeed to output the item sin the basket.

I have a class called Basket.php that I used to add items and delete items. Should I add a function called Output that outputs them all in a table? It's just I heard it was bad to output html in php like this:

echo "<table> <tr> <td style='.....'>";
echo "blahhh">;

So how do you normally output tables, images, links and other dynamic content?
Thanks.

scrupul0us

<?php

//do some php stuff here

?>

//HTML HERE
<?php

//finish php here

?>

thread_PHP

for example

  <a href="<?php echo $result1['linkurl'];?>" target="_blank"><?php echo $result1['linkname']; ?></A>

Weedpacket

This and other methods are listed on http://ww.php.net/manual/en/language.basic-syntax.php
It's the first part of the Language Reference in the manual (hence the first page after installation and configuration). In fact, the method shown in the previous two posts is described in the first section on that page. The third paragraph of that section also states that "...for outputting large blocks of text, dropping out of PHP parsing mode is generally more efficient than sending all of the text through echo() or print().".