title: access to variables from different php blocks
body: <p>I need to write a large block of html from a php file. To do this, I am closing an initial php block (using '?>'), then writing the html, followed by the new php block.</p>
  
  <p>I need to access variables from the first php block in the second php block. </p>
  
  <p>Could anyone explain the most efficient way to do this?</p>
  
  <p>Right now, when I refer, in the second block, to a variable assigned with a non-zero value in the first block, I just get a returned value of 0.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks for any help.</p>