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Asked: 2026-05-11T18:50:46+00:00

I asked another question about HTML and PHP separation as I have seen references

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I asked another question about HTML and PHP separation as I have seen references to it on tutorial and examples pages but I found that separation of HTML and PHP it something different than what people are actually commenting on and I think that is PHP modes.

That is breaking out of PHP or not. Should It be done? Is it important?

Is it just a matter of preference to echo my HTML output or should I break out to display it?

Example:

<?php

echo '<html'>;

?>

vs.

<?php

dostuff();

?>

<html>

<?

morestuff();

?>
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  1. Editorial Team

    I assume by “breaking out” you mean:

    <?php foo(); ?>
test
<?php bar(); ?>

    as opposed to

    <?php
    foo();
    echo("test");
    bar();
?>

    Well, one advantage of the first solution is that your layout is still more or less readable in HTML editors. Also, it separates layout and logic, at least more than the other variant. It is probably also slightly faster than the second option because no strings need to be parsed and echo’ed. On the flipside, having tons and tons of individual PHP-blocks can really be hard to read because things that are semantically related are suddenly split. You can, of course, also combine both approaches.

    I think the bottom line here is that as soon as you need to do so much formatting and echo’ing that the logic of your program becomes really obscured, you should consider using a ‘real’ template engine.

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