I work with conversion of a html template in to PHP, normally i code like this

          <div id="test">
        <?php echo "<p>hello world</p>"; ?>
               </div> 

            <?php

     for($i=0;$i<=8;$i++){

      echo "<ul>"; 
      echo "<li>link1";
      echo "<li>link2";
      echo "</ul>"; 


     } ?>

Suggest an easy way to use html tags in php code, other than using a template system, Also tell me how to use for, foreach loop, if else, along with html,CSS tags