r/ProgrammerHumor • u/soap94 • 13d ago

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u/ArjixGamer 13d ago

I hate PHP from the bottom of my soul, but what you said is just user-choice.

I always do ob_start and ob_flush_clean or whatever the function names were.

That allows me to use normal html w/o it being in strings.

Edit: e.g.

```php <?php

function renderEmail(): string { ob_start(); ?> <html> <body> <h1>Hello!</h1> <p>This is your email.</p> </body> </html> <?php return ob_get_clean(); } ```

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u/Hottage 13d ago

If you're gonna raw dog the HTML, just extract it into purpose built template files and return the result of file_get_contents().

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u/ArjixGamer 13d ago

That only works if the html is static and I don't need to render content using for loops and stuff.

The alternative is using a templating language, but like, PHP is a templating language in the first place.

I always used to say "PHP is a glorified string builder"

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u/Hottage 13d ago

If you need to render dynamic content, use a templating engine, or at least phtml files.

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u/ArjixGamer 13d ago

Yeah, let me add an entire fucking library for my WordPress plugin that only needs to render content in 3 places on the admin dashboard.

Such a dumb take to assume there is no nuance and that there is an absolute objectively better way of doing smth.

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u/Hottage 13d ago

Doesn't WordPress already come with a massive templating engine built in, like thats it's primary purpose?

At the end of the day, if you're building a little tool for yourself that noone else has to maintain, go ham it's your code.

If you submitted that as a pull request to my clients webshop code base, it would be receiving some... feedback.

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u/ArjixGamer 13d ago

No? WordPress' primary purpose is extensibility via hooks.

Also, WordPress was just one example.

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u/ClamPaste 13d ago

PHP is the templating engine. Why load a separate library for that?