On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Peter Lind <peter.e.lind@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 20 September 2010 21:56, Andy McKenzie <amckenzie4@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 3:50 PM, Rick Pasotto <rick@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 03:02:35PM -0400, TR Shaw wrote:
>>>>
>>>> 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';
>>>
>>> That will not work. Single quotes means that the '\n' is not interpreted
>>> as a new line so you'll see a bunch of '\n' in the output.
>>>
>>> What I sometimes do is:
>>>
>>> $out = array();
>>> $out[] = '<html>';
>>> $out[] = '<head>';
>>> $out[] = ' <title>Page Title</title>';
>>> $out[] = '</head>';
>>> $out[] = '<body>';
>>> $out[] = '<p>This is the page body</p>';
>>> $out[] = '</body>';
>>> $out[] = '</html>';
>>> echo join("\n",$out);
>>>
>>
>> Interesting. I hadn't thought of that, but it could work. It'd still
>> be quite a bit of extra typing, but at least I find it more
>> readable...
>>
>
> Ash already mentioned it: heredoc format. Much easier, less typing,
> easier to read, keeps formatting, etc, etc etc.
>
> Regards
> Peter
>
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You may well be right; it's a format I haven't used much, but it may
well be the right choice here.
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.
Thanks, all, and if anyone comes up with a really elegant solution,
please let me know!
-Alex
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