Question about php code layout

[supermanjnk]

I was wondering, when you are putting html/javascript into your php code, Is it better to use

echo" html/javascript code";

or is it better to have like

<?
if blah blah blah blah {
?>
Html/javascropt code
<? }
else {
more php code
?>

or is it better to use an include statement and have it in a seperated doc

[Timotheos]

I think it really just comes down to personal preference. So I go with your second example. If there's a lot of html/javascript then I get out of php. To my mind it looks cleaner and I don't have to worry about escaping all those special characters.

[jatar_k]

ergophobe did some good work on this topic
Benchmarking PHP text output [webmasterworld.com]