How to Write HTML Inside PHP

1. Use the echo Function to Write HTML in PHP
2. Write PHP Inside HTML in PHP File

This tutorial will introduce a few methods to write HTML in a PHP file.

Use the echo Function to Write HTML in PHP

In the first method, we will discuss how to write HTML inside the echo function in a PHP file. The PHP echo function is used to output the expressions. The expressions are the string expressions. It is not mandatory to write the parenthesis while using the echo function, as echo is not really a function. It is a language construct and does not have any return types. The function can take multiple parameters.

We can use the echo function to display the HTML elements. For example, create a PHP file and create two variables, $song, and $artist. Write some values as shown in the example below in the variables. Then, use the echo function to create a table tag. Use the echo function on each line to write all the table tags like th, tr, and td. Inside the td tags, concatenate the $song and $artist variables as "<td>" .$songs.'"</td>". Finally, close the table tag inside the echo function.

The example below will create an HTML table with a row and two columns in a PHP file.

Example Code:

<?php
$song = "Echoes";
$artist = "Pink Floyd"; 
echo "<table>";
echo "<tr>";
echo "<th> Songs </th>";
echo "<th> Artists </th>";
echo "</tr>";
echo "<tr>";
echo "<td>".$song."</td>";
echo "<td>".$artist."</td>";
echo "</tr>";
echo "</table>";
?>

Output:

Songs Artists
Echoes Pink Floyd

We can also enclose all the HTML inside one echo function to achieve the same result.

Example Code:

<?php
$song = "Echoes";
$artist = "Pink Floyd"; 
 echo"<table>
 <tr>
 <th> Songs </th>
 <th> Artists </th>
 </tr>
 <tr>
 <td>".$song."</td>
 <td>".$artist."</td>
 </tr>
 </table>";

Output:

Songs Artists
Echoes Pink Floyd

In this way, we can write HTML inside a PHP file.

Write PHP Inside HTML in PHP File

We can also write HTML inside a PHP file without using the echo function. The HTML can be rendered in a .php file. In the first method, HTML was written inside the PHP tags. Therefore, we used the echo functions to display the HTML. Here, we will write HTML outside the PHP tags. But we should open the PHP tags if we have to use the PHP variables in HTML. We can use the <?=$someVar?> syntax to display the PHP variables inside HTML. The syntax is the shortcut for the echo function.

We will use the same variables created in the method above for the demonstration in this method. First, create the variables inside the PHP tags. After closing the tag, create a table tag. Create the table structure just as in the method above. In the td tags, open the PHP tag and display the variables as <?=$song?> and <?=$artist?>.

As a result, we can see an HTML table on the webpage. In this way, we can write HTML inside a PHP file.

Example Code:

<?php 
$song = "Echoes";
$artist = "Pink Floyd"; 
?>
 <table>
 <tr>
 <th> Songs </th>
 <th> Artists </th>
 </tr>
 <tr>
 <td> <?=$song?> </td>
 <td> <?=$artist?> </td>
 </tr>
 </table>

Output:

Songs Artists
Echoes Pink Floyd