that really depends on the results you are trying to achieve. I tend to leave most of the head stuff in plain HTML in an include file - then include() it in the PHP page
After that, I try to group my PHP code together as much as possible - which in turn, groups the HTML together as much as possible. I hate bouncing in and out of <?php ?> just to get some HTML to output. If I'm in the middle of a PHP block, I tend to "echo" any minor chunks of HTML (like </td><td>, or <ul><li> tags) I need to achieve the formatting I am after - it's easier for me when I am debugging or changing something later on. Keep the code as readable as possible so when you, or someone else, needs to change it in the future, you can figure out what you were doing in the first place. Most code is easily deciphered by whomever wrote it (unless of course it's C++, lol) but write code knowing you or someone else may have to work, or re-work it 10 years from now. ----- Original Message ----- From: Patrick Newberry To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 7:11 AM Subject: [php_mysql] html tags when and why I've noticed when building a page, such as "hello world" You don't put any html tags, just echo "hello world" But looking at other programs I sometime see echo / prints of all htlm tags such as: echo "<html>"; echo "<header>"; echo "</header"; echo "<body>"; well you get the point. Since both seem to work, what html tags should you output and when is it ok to not bother or does it matter? Pat www.gypsyfarm.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
