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Combining HTML and PHP Code on a Single Page

In some circumstances, you might want to include form-parsing code on the same page as a hard-coded HTML form. Such a combination can be useful if you need to present the same form to the user more than once. You would have more flexibility if you were to write the entire page dynamically, of course, but you would miss out on one of the great strengths of PHP. The more standard HTML you can leave in your pages, the easier they are for designers and page builders to amend without reference to you. You should avoid scattering substantial chunks of PHP code throughout your documents, however. Doing so makes them hard to read and maintain. Where possible, you should create functions that can be called ...