PHP Echo a large block of text

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Im new to PHP and I can t figure out what the rules are for using the echo function  For example  if I need to echo a large block of css js  do I need to add echo to each line of text or is there a way to echo a large block of code with a single echo   When I try to echo a big block of code like this one  I get an error    if  is single      echo   lt link type  text css  rel  stylesheet  href  http   jotform com css styles form css   gt  lt style type  text css  gt    form-label  width 150px  important     form-label-left  width 150px  important     form-line  padding 10px     form-label-right  width 150px  important    body  html  margin 0  padding 0  background false      form-all  margin 0px auto  padding-top 20px  width 650px  important  color Black  font-family Verdana  font-size 12px     lt  style gt     lt link href  http   jotform com css calendarview css  rel  stylesheet  type  text css    gt    lt script src  http   jotform com js prototype js  type  text javascript  gt  lt  script gt    lt script src  http   jotform com js protoplus js  type  text javascript  gt  lt  script gt    lt script src  http   jotform com js protoplus-ui js  type  text javascript  gt  lt  script gt    lt script src  http   jotform com js jotform js v3  type  text javascript  gt  lt  script gt    lt script src  http   jotform com js location js  type  text javascript  gt  lt  script gt    lt script src  http   jotform com js calendarview js  type  text javascript  gt  lt  script gt    lt script type  text javascript  gt    JotForm init function       input 6   hint  ex  myname example com         lt  script gt     else        Is there a better way to echo large blocks of code without a lot of work  adding echo to each line for example

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Your problem is actually caused by      input 6   hint  ex  myname example com      You need to escape the single quotes to be      However  Using a Heredoc is a much better idea  as it will be much cleaner overall

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Echoing text that contains line breaks is fine  and there s no limit on the amount of text or lines you can echo at once  save for available memory    The error in your code is caused by the unescaped single quotes which appear in the string   See this line      input 6   hint  ex  myname example com      You d need to escape those single quotes in a PHP string whether it s a single line or not   There is another good way to echo large strings  though  and that s to close the PHP block and open it again later   if  is single          gt   lt link type  text css  rel  stylesheet  href  http   jotform com css styles form css   gt  lt style type  text css  gt    form-label  width 150px  important     form-label-left  width 150px  important     form-line  padding 10px     form-label-right  width 150px  important    body  html  margin 0  padding 0  background false      form-all  margin 0px auto  padding-top 20px  width 650px  important  color Black  font-family Verdana  font-size 12px     lt  style gt     lt link href  http   jotform com css calendarview css  rel  stylesheet  type  text css    gt    lt script src  http   jotform com js prototype js  type  text javascript  gt  lt  script gt    lt script src  http   jotform com js protoplus js  type  text javascript  gt  lt  script gt    lt script src  http   jotform com js protoplus-ui js  type  text javascript  gt  lt  script gt    lt script src  http   jotform com js jotform js v3  type  text javascript  gt  lt  script gt    lt script src  http   jotform com js location js  type  text javascript  gt  lt  script gt    lt script src  http   jotform com js calendarview js  type  text javascript  gt  lt  script gt    lt script type  text javascript  gt    JotForm init function       input 6   hint  ex  myname example com         lt  script gt     lt  php  else        Or another alternative  which is probably better for readability  is to put all that static HTML into another page and include   it

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You can achieve that by printing your string like    lt  php  string   here is your string    print r  string     gt

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To expand on  hookedonwinter s answer  here s an alternate  cleaner  in my opinion  syntax    lt  php if  is single       gt       lt p gt This will be shown if  is single    is true  lt  p gt   lt  php else    gt       lt p gt This will be shown otherwise  lt  p gt   lt  php endif    gt

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One option is to get out of the php block and just write HTML   With your code  after the opening curly brace of your if statement  end the PHP   if  is single        gt    Then remove the echo   and the     After all your html and css  before the closing    write    lt     else     If the text you want to write to the page is dynamic  it gets a little trickier  but for now this should work fine

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I prefer to concatenate multiple Strings together  This works either for echo AND for variables  Also some IDEs auto-initialize new lines if you hit enter  This Syntax also generate small output because there are much less whitespaces in the strings   echo          one              color  red                    foo             lt h1 gt      bar     lt  h1 gt       insert value of bar       bar                        insert value of bar again        lt p gt  bar lt  p gt                 and again        lt p gt You can also use Double-Quoted  t Strings for single lines   n To use Escape Sequences  lt  p gt          also you can insert comments in middle  which aren t in the string         lt p gt Or to insert Escape Sequences in middle     n    of a string lt  p gt           Normally i start with an empty string and then append bit by bit to it    foo         foo     function sayHello              alert   Hello              n     foo     function sum  a   b                       return a   b            n      Please stop Posts like  uh  You answer to an five jears old Question   Why not  There are much people searching for an answer  And what s wrong to use five year old ideas  If they don t find  their  solution they would open a new Question  Then the first five answers are only  use the search function before you ask   So  I give you another solution to solve problems like this

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num   5   location    tree     format    There are  d monkeys in the  s   echo sprintf  format   num   location

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Heredoc syntax can be very useful      start the string with 3  lt  s and then a word    it doesn t have to be any particular string or length    but it s common to make it in all caps  echo  lt  lt  lt  EOT     in here is your string     it has the same variable substitution rules     as a double quoted string      when you end it  put the indicator word at the     start of the line  no spaces before it      and put a semicolon after it EOT

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Check out heredoc  Example   echo  lt  lt  lt EOD Example of string spanning multiple lines using heredoc syntax  EOD   echo  lt  lt  lt  FOOBAR  Hello World  FOOBAR    The is also nowdoc but no parsing is done inside the block    echo  lt  lt  lt  EOD  Example of string spanning multiple lines using nowdoc syntax  EOD

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Man  PHP is not perl  PHP can just escape from HTML    http   www php net manual en language basic-syntax phpmode php  if  is single        now we just close PHP tag   gt   lt  style gt    lt script gt    lt blah blah blah gt   lt  php   open it back  here is your PHP again  easy      gt    I wonder why such many people stuck to ugly heredoc

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Just break out where you need to    lt html gt   html code   lt  php  php code    gt   html code   lt  html gt    Do not use shortened-form   lt   conflicts with XML and is disabled by default on most servers

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