concatenating a series of statements and storing them in a variable

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I have a series of echo statements containing html and php elements. Is it possible to somehow store the following statements in one variable by concatenating and later print that variable.

The variable should print out the statements as it is printing now.

 

 

<?  echo "USER banned:<b>";
echo '<a style="text-decoration: none;" href="'.$forumurl.'1acpanel/user.php?do=edit&u='.$banuserid.'"<fontcolor="#4822aa" face="verdana" size="2">'.$banusername.'</font></a><br>';

echo "</b>USER Banned By:<b>";

echo '<a style="text-decoration: none;" href="'.$forumurl.'1acpanel/user.php?do=edit&u='.$banneruserid.'"><font color="#4822aa" face="verdana" size="2">'.$bannerusername.'</font></a><br>';
echo "</b>Banned on:<b>".$bandate."</b><br>";
echo "Reason:<b>".$reason."</b><br><br>";
?>

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$var = "";
$var .=  "USER banned:<b>";
$var .= '<a style="text-decoration: none;" href="'.$forumurl.'1acpanel/user.php?do=edit&u='.$banuserid.'"<fontcolor="#4822aa" face="verdana" size="2">'.$banusername.'</font></a><br>';

var .= "</b>USER Banned By:<b>";

 

etc...

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<?php

$output = 'USER banned:<b>'.
'<a style="text-decoration: none;" href="'.$forumurl.
'1acpanel/user.php?do=edit&u='.$banuserid.'"<fontcolor="#4822aa" face="verdana" size="2">'.
$banusername.'</font></a><br></b>USER Banned By:<b>'.
'<a style="text-decoration: none;" href="'.$forumurl.
'1acpanel/user.php?do=edit&u='.$banneruserid.
'"><font color="#4822aa" face="verdana" size="2">'.$bannerusername.
'</font></a><br></b>Banned on:<b>'.$bandate.'</b><br>Reason:<b>'.
$reason.'</b><br><br>';

echo $output;

?>

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thanks for the quick help..