How to echo in PHP, html tags

Question

I went through this before posting:

How can I echo HTML in PHP?

And still couldn't make it work.

I'm trying to echo this:

<div>
 <h3><a href="#">First</a></h3>
 <div>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.</div>
</div>
<div>

But I still can't find a way to make the tags "" and '' disappear, what do I have to do?

Answer 1

You have a variety of options. One would be to use PHP as the template engine it is:

<?php 
  // Draw the page
?>
<div>
  <h3><a href="#">First</a></h3>
  <div>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.</div>
</div>
<?php
  // Done drawing.
?>

Another would be to use single quotes, which let you leave double quotes unquoted and also support newlines in literals:

<?php
  echo '<div>
  <h3><a href="#">First</a></h3>
  <div>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.</div>
</div>';
?>

Another would be to use a HEREDOC, which leaves double quotes untouched, supports newlines, and also expands any variables inside:

<?php
  echo <<<EOS
<div>
  <h3><a href="#">First</a></h3>
  <div>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.</div>
</div>
EOS;
?>

Answer 2

You can replace '<' with < and '>' with > for ex:

echo "<div>";

output will be visible <div>

for longer strings make a function, for ex

function example($input) {
    $output = str_replace('>', '&gt;', str_replace('<', '&lt;', $html));
    return $output;
}

echo example($your_html);

Don't forget to put backslashes href=\"#\" or do it with single quotes href='#' or change it in a function too with str_replace

Answer 3

This will also work fine with double quotes. To echo any html_tag with double quotes we just need to remember one thing, DO NOT USE ANY OTHER DOUBLE QUOTES(") IN THE MIDDLE.

    <?php 

     echo "
    <div>
     <h3><a href='https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3931351/how-to-echo-in-php-html-tags'>First</a></h3>
     <div>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.</div>
    </div>
    <div>";
?>

Notice here the link inside the php echo is enclosed within the single quotes. This is the precaution you should take while using the double quotes for this purpose.

Answer 4

Using the first mechanism given there will do it.

<?php
  ...
?>
<div>
 <h3><a href="#">First</a></h3>
 <div>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.</div>
</div>
<div>
<?php
  ...
?>

Answer 5

Separating HTML from PHP is the best method. It's less confusing and easy to debug.

<?php
  while($var)
  {
?>

     <div>
         <h3><a href="User<?php echo $i;?>"><?php echo $i;?></a></h3>
         <div>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.</div>
     </div>

<?php
  $i++;
  }
?>

Answer 6

no need to use echo sir just use the tag . welcome :)

   <plaintext>
     <div>
       <h3><a href="#">First</a></h3>
         <div>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.</div>
     </div>