Re: Re: Ever complained about lousy PHP programmers?

From: Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 18:44:19 +0000
Subject: Re: Re: Ever complained about lousy PHP programmers?
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Leon Mergen said: > Now, first of all, why did you this: > > <?php echo("<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" > ?>"); ?> > > and not just: > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> Because short tags are evil ;-) My provider has short tags enabled, so there is no getting around this bit of ugliness. > only that I personally prefer to call a print() statement for > everything Do you mean as opposed to echo? If so, would you mind saying a few word as to why? I read that echo is a "language construct." It seems like it would be preferable to print() for this reason. On top of that, it will take multiple strings as input. I think I will remove the parentheses, though. -Peter

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