Php Html Output

[Omzy]

I use echo statements to output my HTML code in PHP, however I came across this piece of code:


<?php if ($_POST['Submit'] == "Submit" && !$allvalid) { ?>
<div id="downloadbar" class="bad">
Please check the fields highlighted in red in order to proceed.
</div>
<?php } ?>


Notice the brackets in the PHP tags - I have never seen this before - is this a valid method of outputting HTML?

[unski84]

Yes, at least I am using this method all the time :)

[osmasters]

Yes, this is correct method and this is good to have for program where you want to write too many html codes in if or else condition.

[Omzy]

So no need to do echo ' or echo " and have 2 worry about the quotation signs or escaping characters

[markowe]

Yes, I just realised this recently :)

Bear in mind that the HTML that's outside the php tags will be subject to the conditional statements INSIDE - make sense?

I can't help feeling this is messy from a "good practice" point of view - probably the purists don't like this kind of chopping and changing from PHP to HTML output and back.