Re: Just curious about the echo commnad

Lisi [mailto:lists@shemeshdirectory.co.il] wrote: > > My personal test for how to do it is how much is being > echoed. Since many > HTML tags require quotes, which have to be escaped in PHP, I > prefer to > close PHP and go back into HTML. This avoids the inevitable > bugs when I > forget to escape the quote. If, however, I have something > short I will > just echo it with PHP. I do it the same way. Additionally, if I open tags with echo, I close them with echo, too and vice versa. This enables one to use tools like Dreamweaver on (small) PHP pages [if one doesn't use smarty]. > > There is one performance factor to consider, it's best to > reduce opening > and closing PHP since each time you open it there is another > call to the > server (I think - please correct me if I'm wrong!) which > could in theory > slow down your page loading, but I'm not sure how much this > really matters. > Anyone out there know anything about this? It does matter, but not much. Leaving/re-entering PHP mode many times inside a page does not use another server call, but needs memory (stack space and PHP interpreter/bytecode structures). This can easily be bypassed by using a PHP acellerator like the Zend Accelerator (http:///www.zend.com/) or PHP Acellerator (http://www.php-accelerator.co.uk/). Thomas > > -Lisi > > At 01:30 PM 10/22/02 -0400, Chris Payne wrote: > >Hi there everyone, > > > >This isn't urgent i'm just curious :-) If I want to use > HTML code in my > >PHP, I usually close the PHP with ?> do the HTML command > with <?=$code?> if > >I need to output PHP then open PHP again with <? if I need > to write alot of > >PHP. > > > >However, i've noticed alot of people use echo to output HTML > instead of this > >other method, which method is correct and why? I just want > to understand if > >I am doing it a bad way or if I should learn to adopt echo's > for everything? > > > >Thanks, just curious so no hurry for a reply :-) > > > >Regards > > > >Chris Payne > > > > > >-- > >PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > >To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > -- > PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >