Can HTML be embedded inside PHP if statement

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I would like to embed HTML inside a PHP if statement  if it s even possible  because I m thinking the HTML would appear before the PHP if statement is executed    I m trying to access a table in a database  I created a pulldown menu in HTML that lists all the tables in the database and once I select the table from the pulldown  I hit the submit button    I use the isset function to see if the submit button has been pressed and run a loop in PHP to display the contents of the table in the database  So at this point I have the complete table but I want to run some more queries on this table  Hence the reason I m trying to execute more HTML inside the if statement  Ultimately  I m trying to either update  1 or more contents in a row or multiple rows  or delete  1 or more rows  contents in the table  What I m trying to do is create another pulldown that corresponded to a column in a table to make the table search easier and radio buttons that correspond to whether I d like to update or delete contents in the table

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Using PHP close open tags is not very good solution because of 2 reasons  you can t print PHP variables in plain HTML and it make your code very hard to read  the next code block starts with an end bracket    but the reader has no idea what was before    Better is to use heredoc syntax  It is the same concept as in other languages  like bash      lt  php  if   condition       echo  lt  lt  lt  END OF TEXT       lt b gt lots of html lt  b gt   lt i gt  variable lt  i gt       lots of text     many lines possible  with any indentation  until the closing delimiter     END OF TEXT        gt    END OF TEXT is your delimiter  it can be basically any text like EOF  EOT   Everything between is considered string by PHP as if it were in double quotes  so you can print variables  but you don t have to escape any quotes  so it very convenient for printing html attributes   Note that the closing delimiter must begin on the start of the line and semicolon must be placed right after it with no other chars  END OF TEXT     Heredoc with behaviour of string in single quotes     is called nowdoc  No parsing is done inside of nowdoc  You use it in the same way as heredoc  just you put the opening delimiter in single quotes - echo  lt  lt  lt   END OF TEXT

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Yes     lt  php if    my name     someguy            gt  HTML GOES HERE  lt  php      gt

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Yes    lt    if  my name     someguy       gt          HTML GOES HERE  lt        gt

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lt  php if  condition      gt       lt a href  http   yahoo com  gt This will only display if  condition is true lt  a gt   lt  php endif    gt    By request  here s elseif and else  which you can also find in the docs    lt  php if  condition      gt       lt a href  http   yahoo com  gt This will only display if  condition is true lt  a gt   lt  php elseif  anotherCondition      gt      more html  lt  php else     gt      even more html  lt  php endif    gt    It s that simple   The HTML will only be displayed if the condition is satisfied

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I know this is an old post  but I really hate that there is only one answer here that suggests not mixing html and php  Instead of mixing content one should use template systems  or create a basic template system themselves   In the php   lt  php     var1    Alice    var2    apples    var3    lunch    var4    Bob      if   var1     Alice          html   file get contents   path to file html      get the html template      template placeholders   array    variable1        variable2        variable3        variable4         variable placeholders inside the template      template replace variables   array  var1   var2   var3   var4      the variables to pass to the template      html output   str replace  template placeholders   template replace variables   html      replace the placeholders with the actual variable values         echo  html output    gt    In the html   path to file html    lt p gt   variable1   ate   variable2   for   variable3   with   variable4    lt  p gt    The output of this would be   Alice ate apples for lunch with Bob

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So if condition equals the value you want then the php document will run  include  and include will add that document to the current window for example       lt  php  isARequest   true  if   isARequest  include  request html      So because  isARequest is true then it will include request html but if its not a request then it will insert isNotARequest    else if    isARequest   include  isNotARequest html      gt

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lt  php if   my name     aboutme       gt      HTML GOES HERE  lt  php     gt

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