how do I treat html in a loop when using MVC?

Question

Can someone please show me how to do this basic thing using Zend Framework MVC?

I'm looping over the timestamp data and populating my table that way. i don't understand how I would pull my presentation HTML from this loop and stick it in the view? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

<table>
<?php
  $day = date("j");
  $month = date("m");
  $year = date("Y");        
  $currentTimeStamp = strtotime("$year-$month-$day"); 
  $numDays = date("t", $currentTimeStamp); 
  $counter = 0; 

            for($i = 1; $i < $numDays+1; $i++, $counter++) 
            { 
                $timeStamp = strtotime("$year-$month-$i"); 
                if($i == 1) 
                { 
                // Workout when the first day of the month is 
                $firstDay = date("w", $timeStamp); 

                for($j = 0; $j < $firstDay; $j++, $counter++) 
                echo "<td>&nbsp;</td>"; 
                } 

                if($counter % 7 == 0) {
                  echo "</tr><tr>"; 
                }

                    echo "<td>" .$i . "</td>";

            }
?> 
</table>

I'm wanting to turn the above code into functions, but the HTML is throwing me off.