How can PHP differentiate between being within a table cell and executing an IF statement?

PHP can differentiate between being within a table cell and executing an IF statement by using PHP tags within the table cell and the IF statement. To ensure PHP code within a table cell is not executed as HTML, it should be enclosed in PHP tags `<?php ?>`. On the other hand, to execute an IF statement, the condition and code block should be enclosed within PHP tags as well.

&lt;table&gt;
    &lt;tr&gt;
        &lt;td&gt;&lt;?php echo &quot;This is within a table cell&quot;; ?&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
    &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;

&lt;?php
if ($condition) {
    // Code block to be executed if the condition is true
}
?&gt;