Question

Okay, so maybr I’m going about doing this entirely wrong, I probably am. But I would like to be able to take the HTML between a … like so:

$str = ?>
... some HTML goes here ...
<?php ;

Am I completely off my rocker to think I can do this? I couldn’t think of a way to put it into words so I could search it on Google, which is why I’m here…

Answer 1

You can use output buffering:

ob_start();
?>
... some HTML goes here ...
<?php
echo 'php outputs are captured too';
$str = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();

Alternatively, if it’s just a little bit of HTML (and no php code within), just write it down with one of the string formats like heredoc or nowdoc:

$str = <<<'NOWDOC'
... some HTML goes here
NOWDOC;