[thelist] Re: PHP inside or outside?

[Joao Verde]

In reply to "Kinjal Dixit" <kinjal at tendercity.com>

> IMHO, keeping the html outside is better because that allows me to
> use tools like macromedia dreamweaver to get a preview.  Also doing

The preview part I've got solved as I'm editing on Homesite and got the output mapped through Apache.
Still, I don't give much use to the internal preview, I always keep an open tab of Mozilla Firefox to preview the work.



In reply to "Tony Crockford" <tonyc at boldfish.co.uk>

> I also find it easier to read  echo'd php variables within html
> than to read echo'd html within PHP (all those escaped characters -
> makes it look really untidy.)

Reading HTML inside PHP is indeed harder since we lose code highlightint. Shouldn't bother much, as I once wrote HTML on Notepad. :-)

> (I do hope you haven't started a war!)

Apparently not a war, but a good exchange of ideas on the matter. :-)

Having read all the opinions expressed here - which I thank - I guess I'll stick with PHP start-to-end echoing HTML inside it. Even though I lose HTML readability, that allows me to focus on PHP itself which is my primary responsibility.
I'll also give a look at the heredoc syntax...

jcv

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