Re: Re: site path

If you really need to get picky, then I shall... well, point out the obvious: echo "<a href='$theURL/'>Go to some folder</a>"; And since we got into this, there are some servers where you don't have control over http config, so you shouldn't want to link to directories at all - you'd want to specify the exact file to link to, as in echo "<a href='$theURL/index.php'>Go to some folder</a>"; Bogdan @ Edwin wrote:

Well, I agree about what you said

IMHO, the second comes more natural to write, is easier to understand at a glance, is less prone to errors and, well, it's shorter!

but remember the topic is about whether the trailing slash would create a problem or not. I think you're aware that there are some servers are not configured to understand that http://www.domain.com/somefolder is equal to http://www.domain.com/somefolder/ . So, NOT having the trailing slash might even create some problems. So, it's a matter of opinion (and use) whether adding a trailing slash would create a problem or not. So imagine how this code will work: echo "<a href='$theURL'>Go to some folder</a>"; - E On Friday, October 11, 2002 2:28 PM Bogdan Stancescu wrote:

Ok, then I honestly don't understand why anyone would rather write this echo "<a href='" . $myURL . "home'>Go home</a>"; instead of this echo "<a href='$myURL/home'>Go home</a>"; IMHO, the second comes more natural to write, is easier to understand at a glance, is less prone to errors and, well, it's shorter! Bogdan @ Edwin wrote:

Not exactly. Single quotes are fine. I missed the fact that the single quotes here

echo("<A HREF='$my_URLhome'>Go home</A>");

will be included in the source--sorry about that. Well, then, to rewrite the code earlier,

echo '<a href="' . $my_URL . 'home">Go home</a>';

this way: echo "<a href='" . $myURL . "home'>Go home</a>"; that would still not give you the "trailing slash" problem. In other

words,

it's just a matter of how you write the code... ;) - E On Friday, October 11, 2002 1:06 AM Bogdan Stancescu wrote:

I'm not sure exactly what you're trying to point out - does XHTML require double quotes? Bogdan @ Edwin wrote:

Just a thought... If you're going to write an XHTML compatible code, you wouldn't really

have

this problem -->

echo("<A HREF='$my_URLhome'>Go home</A>");

since you'll probably write something like this: echo '<a href="' . $my_URL . 'home">Go home</a>'; > Of course, I didn't mean that you can't do that with HTML...

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