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

February 5, 2023 by Tarik

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

function TestBlockHTML ($replStr) {
return <<<HTML
    <html>
    <body><h1>{$replStr}</h1>
    </body>
    </html>
HTML;
}

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