Best Practices: working with long, multiline strings in PHP?

Question

Note: I\'m sorry if this is an extremely simple question but I\'m somewhat obsessive compulsive over the formatting of my code.

I have a class that has a function th

Answer 1

I use templates for long text:

email-template.txt contains

hello {name}!
how are you? 

In PHP I do this:

$email = file_get_contents('email-template.txt');
$email = str_replace('{name},', 'Simon', $email);