The sample usually is that PHP code should be put inside an HTML tag… can it be done the
other way around like
<?php
echo $_POST['first_name'];
//LIKE THE HTML CODE CAN BE PUT INSIDE THE PHP CODE?
?>Can you output html using php? Yes -
echo "<p>Your last name is: {$_POST['last_name']}</p>";Most programmers use a majority rule to decide which way to write code. If most of what you are doing in a block is html, use code like in your picture. If a majority of what you are doing is php logic, echo the html using php code.
BTW - everything inside a .php file IS php code. The things that are outside of <?php ?> tags are considered inline html and when php parses and tokenizes the content of the .php file, the inline html receives a token named - T_INLINE_HTML, with the token value being the literal inline html, such as the <p>Your last name is: in your picture.
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thanks for the insights… what is meant by a token by the way?
also, why did you have curly brackets inside the p tag?
you can also write , like It should be -
echo "<p>Your last name is:".$_POST['last_name']."</p>";
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Both of these approaches work just fine. The curly brackets, when used in a double quoted string, enclose a PHP expression that is resolved then placed in the string.
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And as a fun fact, the tokenized byte-code that php produces for both is exactly the same.
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