Shared coding conventions allow teams to collaborate efficiently. To avoid the confusion that can be caused by tangling two coding languages in the same file, inline HTML should be avoided.
== Noncompliant Code Example
----
<?php
$name = "George";
?>
<p> Hello <?php echo $name ?>!</p>
----
== Exceptions
File having the extension ``++.phtml++`` are ignored by this rule because they are expected to have mixed PHP and HTML.