title: Can you put PHP inside PHP with echo?
body: <p>In a situation where little snippets of PHP are used in the html a lot, like Wordpress, can you use PHP inside PHP echos?</p>
  
  <p>Example:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?php 
      echo "&lt;?php the_author_meta('description'); ?&gt;";
  ?&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>As unnecessary as that may be, can it even be done? If not, one aspect of PHP that still seems to confuse me slightly is how to end and restart PHP when outputting HTML.</p>
  
  <p>Case in point, Chris' answer here: <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1100354/how-can-i-echo-html-in-php">How can I echo HTML in PHP?</a> - I want so badly to put a <code>?&gt;</code> at the end of his example, but that causes errors. Can someone point me in the direction of some comprehensive info of how this starting/stopping with PHP works when blending with HTML, HTML that itself may use PHP snippets in it.</p>