What is the best practice to use when using PHP and HTML?

Question

I have been designing websites for a while now, but there is one thing that I have never been quite sure of when using PHP and HTML. Is it better to have the whole document

Answer 1

If you can, use a template engine instead.

Although it is slightly easier at first to mix your HTML and PHP, separating them makes things much easier to maintain later on.

I would recommend checking out TemplateLite which is based on Smarty but is a little more light weight.