PHP best practice

Lethal` · 28 Mar 2011 at 16:59

What's the best way to output well indented HTML from PHP?

I considered using the HEREDOC syntax, but that makes the indented PHP source look just as bad.

Dj_Jestar · 28 Mar 2011 at 17:31

Personally, the best practice is to not care.

Ekim · 28 Mar 2011 at 17:35

Yep, I used to spend ages making sure that my HTML code looked tidy when being output by PHP.

With Firebug etc. I don't see the point anymore - there is very few times I just 'view source' now when looking for a problem.

suarve · 28 Mar 2011 at 17:35

Dj_Jestar said:
Personally, the best practice is to not care.

High five!

Lethal` · 28 Mar 2011 at 17:51

Ekim said:
Yep, I used to spend ages making sure that my HTML code looked tidy when being output by PHP.

With Firebug etc. I don't see the point anymore - there is very few times I just 'view source' now when looking for a problem.

I agree. However this is assessed work, so I want to make it look as neat as possible

Rozzy85 · 28 Mar 2011 at 18:07

I use to always try and make it look as tidy as possible and to remove as many blank spaces as possible but it the end it's all just seems pointless when you think about it. I think I mainly did to try and reduce the size of the data which was probably the only best reason.

shine · 28 Mar 2011 at 18:12

There's discussion in this thread that might help you:

http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/564927

JimAroo · 29 Mar 2011 at 12:14

As others have already mentioned, just use string escapes.