Is there any way to return HTML in a PHP function? (without building the return value as a string)

Question

I have a PHP function that I\'m using to output a standard block of HTML. It currently looks like this:

Answer 1

You can use a heredoc, which supports variable interpolation, making it look fairly neat:

function TestBlockHTML ($replStr) {
return <<
    
{$replStr}
    
    
HTML;
}

Pay close attention to the warning in the manual though - the closing line must not contain any whitespace, so can't be indented.