Question

My friend writes everything using phps echo.

I mean he starts <? and echo everything, including header, main part, footer, he even has style.php file where he echos some css and then includes it in main project.

question is why is it better to do that way ? Or is it better at all?

Cause in dreamveawer everything is red. I mean it understands evrything as phps srtings and makes all text red.

If you do not use echo you have different colors in code and you can see where is ccs, javascript or html.

So what’s better to write normally or I should try the same “echo everything” practice ?

Answer 1

No, it is no better to do that way.

Do not use echo to output HTML but divide your code into 2 parts – business logic part and presentation logic part, a latter one consists of mostly HTML with PHP used only to output data coming from the business logic part

a little example of such a template:

<? if ($err): ?>
  <? foreach($err as $e): ?>
<div class="err"><?=$e?></div>
  <? endforeach ?>
<? endif ?>
<form>
  <input type="text" name="name" value="<?=$form['name']?>">
  <textarea name="comments"><?=$form['comments']?></textarea>
  <input type="submit">
</form>