Re: Auto-generating HTML

On Mon, 2010-09-20 at 14:56 -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 > Have you thought about SMARTY templates? easy to use, it's just a class, and you write your html in template files, which are easier to read than in your php files. Just a thought... i personally LOVE smarty template. Steve