This second excerpt from Advanced PHP Programming: A practical guide to developing large-scale Web sites and applications with PHP 5 by George Schlossnagle is reprinted with permission of Sams ...

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So I've got a question about coding style. In many examples around the Interweb I've seen people flopping back and forth between breaking in and out of PHP in their HTML code to display their data, or ...