code source Indentation

[Razeor]

Hey all,

 

I'm a newbie in the php game although I have been playing with html and css for quite some time.

 

When looking at the browser source code I like to have it readable with proper indentation. I have not been able to do this to nicely with php so i was wondering how you all go about it.

 

The two ways I usually go about it is either write the html outside of php tags but that creates a lot of open and closed tags. The other option I have seen is to use /t's in the php code when printing html. This looks ok but can cause problems when you go back up your code and make modifications.

 

So how do the experts do it?

[corbin]

I don't consider myself an expect, but I just either don't indent HTML (I'm lazy like that), or I put tabs in the HTML....  Like actual tabs, not \t.

 

echo "<actual tab>blah";

[trq]

Another option might be to use tidy.

[448191]

It doesn't matter. You wont be reading the HTML at any stage, so worry about tidy PHP, not HTML. Using tidy to cleanup HTML is a waste of resources.