Creating a variable from a large, complicated section of html

I have several large (200+ lines) of html that I need to place in a variable to use several times in a loop. It gets very messy to escape this and that and keep formatting clean. Is there anyway to set a variable like this IF statement?

<?php if($condition): ?> <p>html here</p> <?php endif; ?>

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<?php if($condition): ?> <p>html here</p> <?php endif; ?>​

I know its possible with external files, but Id rather not add a series of includes to achieve this.

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Use heredoc notation:

$html = <<<HTML
<div class="section">
    <h2>Header</h1>
    <p>Paragraph 1</p>
    <p>Paragraph 2</p>
</div>
HTML;

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$html = <<<HTML<div class="section">    <h2>Header</h1>    <p>Paragraph 1</p>    <p>Paragraph 2</p></div>HTML;​

No worrying about special characters, and you can reuse the variable as much as you want.

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