However ...

Generally speaking, Perl does not pursue this objective in (what you call) “the PHP way,” and in my experience:   these days, neither does PHP(!).

The Perl language clearly espouses the notion of “separation of concerns,” where the logic of the application is studiously separated from the presentation.   Typically, a Perl-driven (and a modern-day PHP-driven ...) web-site is viewed as being:   “a program that takes a URL-string and possibly POST-data as input, and which generates an HTML string as output ... using a template to do so.”

If you are still “embedding programming_language into HTML,” then I cordially advise you that you should re-consider that approach.   Even though the PHP language started-out in this direction, it has since shifted away from it ... and, so should you.

P.S.:   I speak as someone equally conversant and up-to-speed in both language systems, not-to-mention many others.   “This is not my first rodeo.”   (As, as you will find, is the case for most of us around here.)