Question

My PHP tends output html in really long, difficult to read html.

If my PHP is written as:

<?php 
     echo "<li>";
     echo "<strong>Hello</strong>";
     echo "</li>";
?>

it outputs HTML like this

<li><strong>Hello</strong></li>

which dosnt look that bad, but imagine if thats within a foreach loop which out putted variants of that, all on one line..

Is there a way to get my PHP to output as neatly composed HTML ?

Answer 1

There is: include the whitespace in your output (for example, add \n after each tag).

However, doing that is really an exercise in futility. If you want to view the HTML yourself, get an HTML pretty printer (or use the one included in your browser’s developer tools). If it’s meant for a browser, the browser doesn’t care.