Re: speed comparison

I have not problem displaying variable - I do it all over my webpage, or how to handle them. you may want to check out my post above that has a weblink to the project, and a better explanation of exactly what I am doing. "Ernest E Vogelsinger" <ernest@vogelsinger.at> wrote in message news:5.1.1.6.2.20021119005820.00b4ae48@mail.vogelsinger.at... > As Maxim pointed out a couple of days ago, this is just a matter of > nanosecs, it shouldn't be really noticeable from performance. > > The fastest was to display non-PHP output is to escape from PHP and enter > plain HTML, like > $a = 'World'; > ?> > <H1>Hello <?=$a?>!</h1> > <?php > > This is quite ugly to read and write, and it prohibits to separate content > from output. So the next fast way to output would be > echo '<H1>Hello World!</h1>'; > Note the single quotes - they are (_very_slightly_) faster than double quotes. > > If you need to display variables you must revert to > echo "<H1>Hello $a!</H1>"; > to parse the string (note the double quotes here). > > I would always prefer to have to buy a faster server and use the second or > third method than having to escape from PHP for any output, for what it's > worth. > > > -- > >O Ernest E. Vogelsinger > (\) ICQ #13394035 > ^ http://www.vogelsinger.at/ >