Re: speed comparison

I like to see html highlighting, so I prefer first method, but for some small snippets I also use echo Ernest E Vogelsinger wrote:

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.