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From: Andy McKenzie on 20 Sep 2010 14:56 Hey folks, I have the feeling this is a stupid question, but I can't even find anything about it. Maybe I'm just not searching for the right things. Here's the problem. I'm writing a lot of pages, and I hate going in and out of PHP. At the same time, I want my HTML to be legible. When you look at it, that's kind of a problem, though... for instance (assume this had some PHP in the middle, and there was actually a reason not to just put this in HTML in the first place): Simple PHP: <?php echo '<html>'; echo '<head>'; echo ' <title>Page Title</title>'; echo '</head>'; echo '<body>'; echo '<p>This is the page body</p>'; echo '</body>'; echo '</html>'; ?> Output page source: <html><head> <title>Page Title</title></head><body><p>This is the page body</p></body></html> Now, I can go through and add a newline to the end of each line (echo '<html>' . "\n"; and so on), but it adds a lot of typing. Is there a way to make this happen automatically? I thought about just building a simple function, but I run into problem with quotes -- either I can't use single quotes, or I can't use double quotes. Historically, I've dealt with the issue by just having ugly output code, but I'd like to stop doing that. How do other people deal with this? Thanks, Alex
From: TR Shaw on 20 Sep 2010 15:02 On Sep 20, 2010, at 2:56 PM, Andy McKenzie wrote: > Hey folks, > > I have the feeling this is a stupid question, but I can't even find > anything about it. Maybe I'm just not searching for the right things. > > Here's the problem. I'm writing a lot of pages, and I hate going in > and out of PHP. At the same time, I want my HTML to be legible. When > you look at it, that's kind of a problem, though... for instance > (assume this had some PHP in the middle, and there was actually a > reason not to just put this in HTML in the first place): > > Simple PHP: > <?php > > echo '<html>'; > echo '<head>'; > echo ' <title>Page Title</title>'; > echo '</head>'; > echo '<body>'; > echo '<p>This is the page body</p>'; > echo '</body>'; > echo '</html>'; > > ?> > > > Output page source: > <html><head> <title>Page Title</title></head><body><p>This is the > page body</p></body></html> > > > Now, I can go through and add a newline to the end of each line (echo > '<html>' . "\n"; and so on), but it adds a lot of typing. Is there a > way to make this happen automatically? I thought about just building > a simple function, but I run into problem with quotes -- either I > can't use single quotes, or I can't use double quotes. Historically, > I've dealt with the issue by just having ugly output code, but I'd > like to stop doing that. How do other people deal with this? > > Thanks, > Alex Alex Just add a \n at the end as echo '<html>\n'; Of course if your on windows you might want to output \r\n Tom
From: Marc Guay on 20 Sep 2010 15:05 What sort of results do you get with echo " <html> <head> <title>Page Title</title> </head> <body> <p>This is the page body</p> </body> </html> "; or similar?
From: "=?utf-8?B?YXNoQGFzaGxleXNoZXJpZGFuLmNvLnVr?=" on 20 Sep 2010 15:08 Have you looked at heredoc and nowdoc in the manual? They could be what you're after, as they preserve the output in the way you write it. Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk ----- Reply message ----- From: "Andy McKenzie" <amckenzie4(a)gmail.com> Date: Mon, Sep 20, 2010 19:56 Subject: [PHP] Auto-generating HTML To: "PHP General list" <php-general(a)lists.php.net> Hey folks, I have the feeling this is a stupid question, but I can't even find anything about it. Maybe I'm just not searching for the right things. Here's the problem. I'm writing a lot of pages, and I hate going in and out of PHP. At the same time, I want my HTML to be legible. When you look at it, that's kind of a problem, though... for instance (assume this had some PHP in the middle, and there was actually a reason not to just put this in HTML in the first place): Simple PHP: <?php echo '<html>'; echo '<head>'; echo ' <title>Page Title</title>'; echo '</head>'; echo '<body>'; echo '<p>This is the page body</p>'; echo '</body>'; echo '</html>'; ?> Output page source: <html><head> <title>Page Title</title></head><body><p>This is the page body</p></body></html> Now, I can go through and add a newline to the end of each line (echo '<html>' . "\n"; and so on), but it adds a lot of typing. Is there a way to make this happen automatically? I thought about just building a simple function, but I run into problem with quotes -- either I can't use single quotes, or I can't use double quotes. Historically, I've dealt with the issue by just having ugly output code, but I'd like to stop doing that. How do other people deal with this? Thanks, Alex -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
From: Paul M Foster on 20 Sep 2010 15:14
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 02:56:47PM -0400, Andy McKenzie wrote: > Hey folks, > > I have the feeling this is a stupid question, but I can't even find > anything about it. Maybe I'm just not searching for the right things. > > Here's the problem. I'm writing a lot of pages, and I hate going in > and out of PHP. At the same time, I want my HTML to be legible. When > you look at it, that's kind of a problem, though... for instance > (assume this had some PHP in the middle, and there was actually a > reason not to just put this in HTML in the first place): > > Simple PHP: > <?php > > echo '<html>'; > echo '<head>'; > echo ' <title>Page Title</title>'; > echo '</head>'; > echo '<body>'; > echo '<p>This is the page body</p>'; > echo '</body>'; > echo '</html>'; > > ?> > > > Output page source: > <html><head> <title>Page Title</title></head><body><p>This is the > page body</p></body></html> > > > Now, I can go through and add a newline to the end of each line (echo > '<html>' . "\n"; and so on), but it adds a lot of typing. Is there a > way to make this happen automatically? I thought about just building > a simple function, but I run into problem with quotes -- either I > can't use single quotes, or I can't use double quotes. Historically, > I've dealt with the issue by just having ugly output code, but I'd > like to stop doing that. How do other people deal with this? > > Thanks, > Alex The *real* way to do this is not to echo all that HTML. Just type the HTML the way you want it. Where you have PHP embedded in it, just surround it with the appropriate <?php and ?>. This business of echoing HTML is silly. Do this: <html> <head> <title>Page Title</title> </head> <body> <?php echo $hello_world; ?> <p>This is the page body.</p. </body> </html> The $hello_world variable is defined elsewhere, like the file which "include"s this one. Call your file 'pagename.php' and the server will catch whatever PHP is embedded in it and pass on the HTML. Paul -- Paul M. Foster |