Re: Speed issues.

I haven't noticed ANY performance hit by skipping in and out of PHP and HTML when it suits me. I imagine there *might* be a slight performance hit if you were building a LOT of table information with print or echo or printf, but the general answer to your question is usually "whatever suits you better". You could run some comparison tests with a microtimer to see what happens... I doubt on a 50-100K HTML page that you could notice the difference, unless the site or server got S**TLOADS of hits. Justin French on 28/07/02 5:56 PM, Yves Vrancken (webmaster@silvenmyst.com) wrote: > Greetings, > > I am new to PHP and trying to implement some PHP and MySQL on my website. My > website has a lot of tables and inside some of those tables, I want to > display information that is drawn out of the MySQL database using PHP. I was > wondering what goes faster: > > (A). Building the whole page normally up in HTML, doing the usual <table> > <td> and so forth, and then inside the <td> calling up the PHP in order to > display the information. For example: <td> <?php ...... ?> </td> > > (B). Doing everything in the PHP document, also the 'building' of the > tables, and then including the PHP script in the main page. For example > using printf("<tr><td> and so forth. > > Thanks, > > Yves Vrancken > >