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    copied!<p>I have looked at other posts here regarding similar questions but cannot find an answer.</p> <p><strong>Edit</strong> I have been playing with this and I want to alter my question somewhat.</p> <p>I am having a problem placing the output that is echoed from an external php file.</p> <p>Here is some example code to demonstrate my problem - this is my main file <code>writephp.php</code>:</p> <pre><code>&lt;!DOCTYPE html&gt; &lt;html lang="en"&gt; &lt;head&gt; &lt;meta charset="utf-8"&gt; &lt;title&gt;Test Php &lt;/title&gt; &lt;link rel="stylesheet" href="writephp.css"&gt; &lt;/head&gt; &lt;body&gt; &lt;div class="allContent"&gt; &lt;?php for($i=0; $i&lt;3; $i++): ?&gt; &lt;div class="commentBox"&gt; &lt;p&gt; Just a box&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;?php endfor; ?&gt; &lt;a href="write.php?outputHtml"&gt;Php output&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/body&gt; &lt;/html&gt; </code></pre> <p>Now I can center this with css:</p> <pre><code>.allContent { width: 400px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; font-family: Arial; } .commentBox { border: 1px solid black; width: 400px; padding: 0px 5px 5px 5px; margin-top: 5px; } </code></pre> <p>So in the html file the php writes out boxes which are centered in the page since the php loop is within the "allConent" div.</p> <p>The anchor envokes an external php file which will echo some more boxes.</p> <p>That file looks like this and is called <code>write.php</code> (<code>writephp.php</code> is the main file this is called from):</p> <pre><code>&lt;?php if (isset($_GET['outputHtml'])) { echo "&lt;p class='allContent commentBox'&gt;" . "This is from external PHP" . "&lt;/p&gt;"; echo "&lt;p class='allContent commentBox'&gt;" . "This is also from external PHP" . "&lt;/p&gt;"; include 'writephp.php'; } </code></pre> <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/NOw7d.gif" alt="output looks like"></p> <p>But the echoed output from the external php is above the output from the main file -in fact it is placed before the <code>&lt;!doctype html&gt;</code> tag , obviously not good.</p> <p>the page source looks like this:</p> <pre><code>&lt;p class='commentBox allContent'&gt;This is from external PHP&lt;/p &gt;&lt;p class='allContent commentBox'&gt;This is also from external PHP&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!DOCTYPE html&gt; &lt;html lang="en"&gt; &lt;head&gt; &lt;meta charset="utf-8"&gt; &lt;title&gt;Test Php &lt;/title&gt; &lt;link rel="stylesheet" href="writephp.css"&gt; &lt;/head&gt; &lt;body&gt; &lt;div class="allContent"&gt; &lt;div class="commentBox"&gt; &lt;p&gt; Just a box&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="commentBox"&gt; &lt;p&gt; Just a box&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="commentBox"&gt; &lt;p&gt; Just a box&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;a href="write.php?outputHtml"&gt;Php output&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/body&gt; </code></pre> <p></p> <p>In general my question would be "<strong>how do I place html coming from an external php file anywhere I want on the page?</strong> "</p>
 

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