Re: functions, opinion...

Or you could just temporarily enable ob... That's what I do when I have a function that needs to return lots of HTML containing many ' and "... I know it's possible to use \ as well, but ob is somewhat easier then... "John W. Holmes" <holmes072000@charter.net> skrev i meddelandet news:3EEE76E1.3010805@charter.net... > Rolf Brusletto wrote: > >> Just kind of curious what people think. In your opinion, > >> should a function avoid output? What I mean by that, is should a > >> function on "do something" without having echo or printf commands in it? > >> This is something I've been thinking about lately to improve my > >> programming style. Opinions? > > > > My personal opinion, which shows in all my code writing is to never echo > > inside a function. always return the data whether it be string, array, > > or boolean... I've always left echoing up to the actual page showing the > > data. That way if you have two seperate pages that need to display the > > data differently, you can use the same function, and just format it as > > needed on the pages. > > I'll second that; I do the same. If you don't do it this way, you'll > find yourself re-writing a function sooner or later because you need it > to return the data instead of displaying it. > > -- > ---John Holmes... > > Amazon Wishlist: www.amazon.com/o/registry/3BEXC84AB3A5E/ > > PHP|Architect: A magazine for PHP Professionals – www.phparch.com > > > >