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

If you don't want to have to rely on a third party tool you can use this technique:

function TestBlockHTML($replStr){
  $template = 
   '
     
       
$str
     
   ';
 return strtr($template, array( '$str' => $replStr));
}