what is the preferred method for outputting HTML?

PERL has the CGI library to build HTML. print header; print start_html('A Simple Example'),

    h1('A Simple Example'),
    start_form,
    "What's your name? ",textfield('name'),
    p,
    "What's the combination?",
    p,
    checkbox_group(-name=>'words',

-values=>['eenie','meenie','minie','moe'], -defaults=>['eenie','minie']),

    p,
    "What's your favorite color? ",
    popup_menu(-name=>'color',
	       -values=>['red','green','blue','chartreuse']),
    p,
    submit,
    end_form,
    hr;

Does PHP have something similar or do I have to write the raw HTML?