Posted by Toby A Inkster on 10/11/45 12:00

Mike Placentra II wrote:

> There's no advantage to processing in the middle of the output. It makes
> more sense not to separate your code into header and processing blocks.
> All processing should usually be done before any output so you don't end
> up with spaghetti code.

My general technique nowadays is not to distinguish so much between
processing and output. My PHP builds up a large object, representing the
page, and at the end, I just run:

print $page->toHTML;

or somesuch. Only one print statement for the entire PHP script, and no
HTML outside the <?php ... ?> block.

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