Are there any drawbacks from escaping PHP? I swear I read somewhere (possibly on HTMLForums) that constantly escaping PHP would negatively effect execution time. So over the past few months I have been trying to escape PHP to output HTML as little as possible. There are some obvious cases where I use a ton of HTML with no need for PHP so I escape PHP. But this has led to my code being ugly with a ton of echo's and escaped quotes. And then when I view source on my HTML to see how that looks it is all screwed with little to no tabbing to differentiate levels.

Does anyone have any knowledge on this?

It is a technique to prevent PHP from ending your strings too early, or for making sure you have the correct string information returned.

<?PHP

$string = 'John's Car';
print $string;

?>