Can you embed html in php?
I want to create table inside php script .. Is there any way that i could create table inside php script.? Show
asked Aug 9, 2013 at 4:59
Karan BhatiaKaran Bhatia 7811 gold badge7 silver badges16 bronze badges 2 You can do like HTML in PHP :
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Or You can write like.
PHP in HTML :
Name
Means:
You can open a PHP tag with , now add your PHP code, then close the tag with
?>
and then write your html code. When needed to add more PHP, just open another PHP tag with .
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answered Aug 9, 2013 at 5:08
GautamD31GautamD31
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You can drop in and out of the PHP context using the and
?>
tags. For example...
Number
Also see Alternative syntax for control structures
answered Aug 9, 2013 at 5:13
PhilPhil
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Try it like,
Name
'.$name.'
';
?>
Updated
Rst Marks
'.$rst4.' '.$marks4.'
';
?>
answered Aug 9, 2013 at 5:00
Rohan KumarRohan Kumar
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Can place code anywhere
answered Aug 9, 2013 at 6:45
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In this article, I'll show you how to use PHP code in your HTML pages. It’s aimed at PHP beginners who are trying to strengthen their grip on the world's most popular server-side scripting language.
Again, PHP is a server-side scripting language. That means a PHP script is executed on the server, the output is built on the server, and the result is sent as HTML to the client browser for rendering. It's natural to mix PHP and HTML in a script, but as a beginner, it’s tricky to know how to combine the PHP code with the HTML code.
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Today, we’re going to discuss a couple of different ways you could choose from when you want to use PHP in HTML. I assume that you have a working installation of PHP so that you can run the examples provided in this article.
Different Ways to Combine PHP and HTML
Broadly speaking, when it comes to using PHP in HTML, there are two different approaches. The first is to embed the PHP code in your HTML file itself with the .html extension—this requires a special consideration, which we’ll discuss in a moment. The other option, the preferred way, is to combine PHP and HTML tags in .php files.
Since PHP is a server-side scripting language, the code is interpreted and run on the server side. For example, if you add the following code in your index.html file, it won’t run out of the box.
Embed PHP in a .html File
First of all, don’t worry if you haven’t seen this kind of mixed PHP and HTML code before, as we’ll discuss it in detail throughout this article. The above example outputs the following in your browser:
So as you can see, by default, PHP tags in your .html document are not detected, and they're just considered plain text, outputting without parsing. That's because the server is usually configured to run PHP only for files with the .php extension.
If you want to run your HTML files as PHP, you can tell the server to run your .html files as PHP files, but it's a much better idea to put your mixed PHP and HTML code into a file with the .php extension.
That's what I'll show you in this tutorial.
How to Add PHP Tags in Your HTML Page
When it comes to integrating PHP code with HTML content, you need to enclose the PHP code with the PHP start tag and the PHP end tag
?>
. The code wrapped between these two tags is considered to be PHP code, and thus it'll be executed on the server
side before the requested file is sent to the client browser.
Let’s have a look at a very simple example, which displays a message using PHP code. Create the index.php file with the following contents under your document root.
How to put PHP in HTML - Simple Example
The important thing in the above example is that the PHP code is wrapped by the PHP tags.
The output of the above example looks like this:
And, if you look at the page source, it should look like this:
As you can see, the PHP code is parsed and executed on the server side, and it's merged with HTML before the page is sent to the client browser.
Let’s have a look at another example:
How to put PHP in HTML- Date Example This is pure HTML message.Next, we’ll display today’s date and day by PHP!Today’s date is and it’s a today!Again, this is static HTML content.
This will output the current date and time, so you can use PHP code between the HTML tags to produce dynamic output from the server. It’s important to remember that whenever the page is executed on the server side, all the code between the and
?>
tags will be interpreted as PHP, and the output will be embedded with the HTML tags.
In fact, there’s another way you could write the above example, as shown in the following snippet.
How to put PHP in HTML- Date Example This is pure HTML message.Next, we’ll display today’s date and day by PHP!' . date('Y/m/d') . ' and it’s a '.date('l').' today!'; ?>Again, this is static HTML content.
In the above example, we’ve used the concatenation feature of PHP, which allows you to join different strings into one string. And finally, we’ve used the echo
construct to display the concatenated string.
The output is the same irrespective of the method you use, as shown in the following screenshot.
And that brings us to another question: which is the best way? Should you use the concatenation feature or insert separate PHP tags between the HTML tags? I would say it really depends—there’s no strict rule that forces you to use one of these methods. Personally, I feel that the placeholder method is more readable compared to the concatenation method.
The overall structure of the PHP page combined with HTML and PHP code should look like this:
... HTML... HTML... HTML...
In the next section, we’ll see how you could use PHP loops with HTML.
How to Use PHP Loops in Your HTML Page
Iterating through the arrays to produce HTML content is one of the most common tasks you'll encounter while writing PHP scripts. In this section, we’ll see how you could iterate through an array of items and generate output.
In most cases, you’ll need to display array content which you’ve populated from the database or some other sources. In this example, for the sake of simplicity, we’ll initialize the array with different values at the beginning of the script itself.
Go ahead and create a PHP file with the following contents.
How to put PHP in HTML - foreach Example List of Employees
Firstly, we’ve initialized the array at the beginning of our script. Next, we’ve used the foreach
construct to iterate through the array values. And finally, we’ve used the echo
construct to display the array element value.
And the output should look like this:
The same example with awhile
loop looks like this:How to put PHP in HTML - foreach Example List of Employees
And the output will be the same. So that’s how
you can use foreach
and while
loops to generate HTML content based on PHP arrays.
In the next section, we’ll see how you could use PHP short tag syntax.
How to Use PHP Short Tags
In the examples we’ve discussed so far, we’ve used the as a starting tag everywhere. In fact, PHP comes with a variation,
, which you could use as a short-hand syntax when you want to display a string or value of the variable.
Let’s revise the example with the short-hand syntax which we discussed earlier.
How to put PHP in HTML - Simple Example
As you can see, we can omit the echo
or print
construct while displaying a value by using the shorthand syntax. The shorthand syntax is short and readable when you want to display something with echo
or print
.
So these are different ways you can use to add PHP in HTML content. As a beginner, you can learn from trying different ways to do things, and it's fun too!
Including Code from Different Files
There are a lot of situations where you need to use the same code on multiple pages of a website. One such example would be the header and footer section of a website. These sections usually contain the same HTML throughout the website.
Think of this like moving the common CSS rules of a website into a stylesheet instead of placing them inside the style
tags on individual pages.
There are four functions available in
PHP to help you include other files within a PHP file. These are include()
, include_once()
, require()
, and require_once()
.
The include()
function will include and evaluate the specified file and give you a warning if it cannot find the file. The require()
function does the same thing, but it gives you an error instead of a warning if the file cannot be found.
When working on big projects, you might unintentionally include the same file multiple times. This could cause
problems like function redefinition. One way to avoid these issues is to use the include_once()
and require_once()
functions in PHP.
Let's use code from a previous section to show you how to use these functions. I will be using include()
in this example. Create a file called header.php and place the following code inside it.
How to put PHP in HTML This is pure HTML message.Next, we’ll display today’s date and day using PHP!
Create another file called date.php and place the following code in it.
' . date('Y/m/d') . '!'; ?>
Create one more file called day.php and place the following code in it.
'.date('l').'!'; ?>