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vickiecomrie
3,248 PointsIsn't it kind of messy and against common standards to intersperse bits of PHP in an HTML web page?
I've only rarely seen this method done before and it seems that it makes a lot more sense to have a separate PHP file just like keeping JS and CSS separate and not inline. Agree?
2 Answers
Marcus Parsons
15,719 PointsHey Vickie,
No, I have to strongly disagree because PHP is meant to intermingle with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. In fact, it would be much less efficient to completely separate your PHP into another document each time you needed to use PHP. In fact, in the very first PHP page from php.net, the people who make PHP, it has you use some PHP inside of an HTML element and continues on to do so in many different examples because it is the most efficient way to utilize PHP.
Kevin Korte
28,148 PointsIt goes back to the roots of PHP. Keeping your logic in a separate PHP is fine, but you'll have to intermingle PHP and HTML to get a dynamic webpage.
vickiecomrie
3,248 Pointsvickiecomrie
3,248 PointsWow dude, thanks for jumping on top of this so quickly! Okay, that is an excellent answer. And I will follow that practice from now on!
Namaste,
Vick