RE: [PHP] Auto-generating HTML

From: Andy McKenzie > I think the main thing I'm seeing is that there isn't a single, > accepted, simple way to do this: no matter what I do, it will be a > workaround of some type. Either I'm adding complexity (a function to > convert everything), or I'm adding lines (heredoc/nowdoc seem to > require that the opening and closing tags be on lines without any of > the string on them), or I'm adding typing (adding ' . "\n"' to the end > of every line of HTML). Perhaps I'll put some effort into building a > function to do it, but not this week... I think for now I'll keep > appending those newlines, and just have more code to fix at a later > date. It's reasonably clean, it's just mildly annoying. It should be relatively easy to do a search and replace on the double tag locations and insert the newlines. Using tr(1) to replace all "><" pairs with ">\n<" might be an improvement. Would it be easier to remove the extras, or to insert all of them in the first place? Bob McConnell