Parsing multiple PHP code blocks among HTML

When inserting

<?php  ?>

Chunks into html it is easier for me to do ...

<?php  ?> some html <?php  ?> some html  <?php  ?> ect. 

Is it b开发者_如何转开发etter to do something like this...

<?php  echo "some html" ect. ?>

and if so how much is using the first method going to slow down my code?

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The PHP interpreter evaluates only the code between a pair of <?php ?> tags. While there might be a speed difference (I doubt it), even if one existed the difference would be completely undetectable.

I'd go with code readability.