I’ve heard it’s a bad practice to echo dynamic HTML content through PHP. But what are the alternatives, in case you need it, like, f.e. a navigation menu on a website, repeated in every page?
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I’ve heard it’s a bad practice to echo dynamic HTML content through PHP. But what are the alternatives, in case you need it, like, f.e. a navigation menu on a website, repeated in every page?
I suspect that this was meant as an advice against “hard-coding” the views in your PHP scripts, and rather separate your concerns by introducing something like an MVC approach. The gains in terms of maintainability and clarity of the code are significant, and in that respect it is a good advice.
That is really just an abstraction, though. At some point PHP has to output the HTML to the browser.
So, outputting dynamic HTML content is an integral part of PHP, but there are worse and better ways of doing it, and hard-coding HTML strings within
echostatements is generally not the best way of doing it. Introduce a template engine and separate views and business logic, and you’re likely better off.