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Asked: 2026-05-15T02:59:31+00:00

Right now I’m assigning HTML to a variable the usual way: $var = <<<END

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Right now I’m assigning HTML to a variable the usual way:

$var = <<<END
<blah>...</blah>
END;

The big disadvantage is that my IDE won’t treat this as HTML, and so it won’t highlight the code. Is there a way to do it that will keep the HTML outside of the <?php ?> tags so that code highlighting will work?

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  1. Editorial Team

    If you’re printing, you could always just exit PHP and go back in whenever you like:

    <?php

function print_header() {
    ?>
    <html>
        <head>

        </head>
        <body>

    <?php
}

function print_footer() {
    ?>

        </body>
    </html>
    <?php
}

print_header();
print_footer();

    Alternatively, you could use buffers to use that technique to assign them to variables:

    <?php

function print_header() {
    ob_start();
    ?>
    <html>
        <head>

        </head>
        <body>

    <?php
    return ob_get_clean();
}

function print_footer() {
    ob_start();
    ?>

        </body>
    </html>
    <?php
    return ob_get_clean();
}

echo print_header();
echo print_footer();
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