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Semi-new to Drupal. I'm trying to find a way to render HTML inside my custom module.

Right now I'm using this method 

$page = 'hello world';
return $page;

Which can get pretty dirty once you had some logic into it.

Is there a better way to do this? Maybe render it to some kind of template file and pass an array of vars?

Any help is appreciated :)

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"Maybe render it to some kind of template file and pass an array of vars?"...yep, you've just described Drupal's theming system :) See hook_theme() – Clive♦ Apr 30 at 13:52
...or if you just need to wrap your code in some DIVs, just create the render array and Drupal will take care of the hard work. – Ayesh K May 2 at 1:08

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Clive is right that using the drupal theme system is your best bet if you're going to be doing significant variable manipulation but if you just want to load a big blob of HTML into your module you can do it a couple of ways in PHP.

For short blobs, try the EOF method

$str = <<<EOF
  <p>Hello</p>
  <p>$world</p>
  ... etc.      
EOF;

For longer blobs, use file_get_contents()

$myhtml = file_get_contents(path_to_module().'/my_html.tpl');
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