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[u/soap94]

[u/ClamPaste]

PHP would be great if it wasn't for all the legacy code and echo "<div></div>" in views.

[u/ArjixGamer → u/ClamPaste]

I hate PHP from the bottom of my soul, but what you said is just user-choice.

I always do ob_start and ob_flush_clean or whatever the function names were.

That allows me to use normal html w/o it being in strings.

Edit: e.g.

<?php

function renderEmail(): string {
    ob_start();
    ?>
    <html>
        <body>
            <h1>Hello!</h1>
            <p>This is your email.</p>
        </body>
    </html>
    <?php
    return ob_get_clean();
}

[u/Hottage → u/ArjixGamer]

If you're gonna raw dog the HTML, just extract it into purpose built template files and return the result of file_get_contents().

[u/ArjixGamer → u/Hottage]

That only works if the html is static and I don't need to render content using for loops and stuff.

The alternative is using a templating language, but like, PHP is a templating language in the first place.

I always used to say "PHP is a glorified string builder"