How to Echo in PHP, HTML Tags

How to echo in PHP, HTML tags

<?php

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

?>

Just put it in single quotes.

How can I echo the actual HTML tags with PHP?

Use htmlentities to render the p tags as text.

echo htmlentities('<p>' . $t . '</p>');
echo '<br>';

Use the PHP_EOL constant to add a new line character the html ouput.

echo '<p>' . $t . '</p>';
echo PHP_EOL;

How do I echo html tags in PHP Variable?

HTML tags will automatically parsed by the browser. To see the pure HTML source anyways, the tags needs to be encoded, especially the angle brackets.

There is a dedicated PHP function available for that called htmlentities().

$var = "Hello<br>How are <strong>you</strong>";
echo htmlentitites($var);

Will encode it in the browser so you can see it displayed as plain text like in $var. The browser will see this:

Hello<br>How are <strong>you</strong>

How can I echo HTML in PHP?

There are a few ways to echo HTML in PHP.

1. In between PHP tags

<?php if(condition){ ?>
     <!-- HTML here -->
<?php } ?>

2. In an echo

if(condition){
     echo "HTML here";
}

With echos, if you wish to use double quotes in your HTML you must use single quote echos like so:

echo '<input type="text">';

Or you can escape them like so:

echo "<input type=\"text\">";

3. Heredocs

4. Nowdocs (as of PHP 5.3.0)

Template engines are used for using PHP in documents that contain mostly HTML. In fact, PHP's original purpose was to be a templating language. That's why with PHP you can use things like short tags to echo variables (e.g. <?=$someVariable?>).

There are other template engines (such as Smarty, Twig, etc.) that make the syntax even more concise (e.g. {{someVariable}}).

The primary benefit of using a template engine is keeping the design (presentation logic) separate from the coding (business logic). It also makes the code cleaner and easier to maintain in the long run.

If you have any more questions feel free to leave a comment.

Further reading is available on these things in the PHP documentation.

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NOTE: PHP short tags <? and ?> are discouraged because they are only available if enabled with short_open_tag php.ini configuration file directive, or if PHP was configured with the --enable-short-tags option. They are available, regardless of settings from 5.4 onwards.

How do I echo a php variable inside html tags inside an if statement?

If you want to echo PHP variable inside echo function, you must as first break echo with ", then add a "merge char" ., then your variable and then again "merge char" and ".

Also don't forget to add semicolon to end of your line which contains definition of $_SESSION['age'].

Edit your code to:

 <?php

   $_SESSION['age'] = 11;

        if($_SESSION['age'] < 14) {
            echo "<h2>Your only ".$_SESSION['age']."? Thats Young!</h2>";
        }
?>

How can I echo tags as plain text within a PHP loop?

You can use < for < and > for >

Like this:

<?php 
while ($row = mysqli_fetch_array($execute)) { 
echo "<name>".$row['name']."</name>";
}
?>

Or like this:

<?php 
while ($row = mysqli_fetch_array($execute)) { 
echo htmlspecialchars("<name>".$row['name']."</name>");
}
?>

Print HTML tags in PHP output

Just use

 $str = "A 'quote' is <b>bold</b> ";

echo htmlspecialchars($str);

because htmlentities convert some characters to HTML entities.

You should instead use htmlspecialchars

It replaces characters as below:

'&' (ampersand) becomes &
'"' (double quote) becomes " when ENT_NOQUOTES is not set.
"'" (single quote) becomes ' only when ENT_QUOTES is set.
'<' (less than) becomes <
'>' (greater than) becomes >

You can check php fiddle here

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