Escape HTML to PHP or Use Echo? Which is better?

Question

In terms of performance , what would be better. Using PHP to echo all the HTML output so I can pepper it with the various bits of working code and variables or escape HTML t

Answer 1

This should be considered more of a readability and maintenance issue than a performance issue.

Thus, option 2 has a couple concrete advantages:

1. Code coloring. With option 1 everything is colored as an echo statement which makes reading HTML more difficult.
2. Intellisense - With many IDE's, HTML within a PHP echo statement won't engage intellisense, so you'll be typing all that HTML by hand.