noob question, clean output

[Stooney]

I feel dumb asking, but what is the best way to have the source of a page (I'm talking php) come out clean and neat?  Like say I have a site where all the output is done via echo's throughout the scripts.  When the source is viewed it's just going to all be on one long line.  Is there some handy way to organize the output?  or should I just stick with \n at the end of each echo statement?

[redbullmarky]

seperating the HTML into 'templates' instead of using PHP to echo it also has the advantage of easier to maintain/reskin pages in addition to keeping line breaks in tact for when viewing source.

[Stooney]

I was reading a few things such as

 

echo <<<EOT
//whatever here
EOT;

 

Basically to make sure people understand.  If I need to show a table of mysql results, there would be a while loop

while($row=mysql_fetch_array($result){
    echo '<tr><td>'.$row[0].'</td><td><'.$row[1].'</td></tr>';
}

 

When you view the source that's just going to be one long line of trs and tds.  I could add ."\n"; to the end of each echo, but it would output with the proper indentation in the source.  Just not sure how to go about making the source look like nice.

[Daniel0]

Either output it "nicely" or use tidy[/tt]. There is no reason to add the extra overhead though.