PHP - To echo or not to echo?

Question

What is more efficient and/or what is better practice, to echo the HTML or have many open and close php tags?

Obviously for big areas of HTML it is sensible

Answer 1

Whichever makes sense to you. The performance difference is marginal, even if a large echo is faster.

But an echo of a big string is hard to read and more <?php echo $this->that; ?> tell a story :)