HTML Response

HtmlResponse is the simplest way to return HTML while keeping PSR-7 compatibility.

What It Does

sets the response status to HTTP 200;
sets Content-Type to text/html with a charset;
writes the provided HTML string into the body.

Basic Example

use FastForward\Http\Message\HtmlResponse;

$response = new HtmlResponse('<h1>Hello</h1>');

echo $response->getHeaderLine('Content-Type'); // text/html; charset=utf-8

Custom Charset

$response = new HtmlResponse(
    html: '<p>Ol&aacute;</p>',
    charset: 'iso-8859-1',
);

Additional Headers

$response = new HtmlResponse(
    '<h1>Dashboard</h1>',
    headers: ['Cache-Control' => 'no-store'],
);

When to Choose HTML Over JSON

Use HtmlResponse when the client is expected to render markup directly, such as:

a small PSR-15 web endpoint;
a maintenance page;
a fallback view for browser requests.

If you need to choose dynamically between HTML and JSON, see Header Utilities for Accept negotiation.