Re: Frequent Mode Switching

On Tuesday 05 August 2003 05:21 pm, Jim Lucas wrote: > This method has been my personal choice for the past 3-4 yrs in coding, > > I have not found any problems with it thus far. > > But I am gradually switching all my code over to a seperate template style > design as where I have all my values in a variable format and then parse a > *.html file and str_replace() all the values accordingly. it's probably more readable and/or organized, but str_replace() is way more expensive than just echoing variable, is it not? RDB > I have found no significant performance difference between <?= **?>, echo > "";, print() > > But I have found a much cleaner method by using the templateing method that > I am switching to. > > To sum it up, if you are concerned about performance, I wouldn't worry too > much. But if you are worried about readability, I would stick with the <?= > ** ?> method myself. It keeps everything flowing in the script. > > Jim Lucas > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Derrick Fogle" <derrick@foundationcomputing.com> > To: <php-general@lists.php.net> > Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 2:13 PM > Subject: [PHP] Frequent Mode Switching > > > Thoughts on frequent switching in and out of PHP mode: > > > > <? switch in, do some code > > ?>Switch out, static HTML > > <? switch in, do more code > > ?>Switch out, more static HTML > > > > I've found that I prefer programming this way, for the most part, > > putting most of the heavy PHP programming at the top, and then using > > static HTML interspersed mostly with quick <?= $variable ?> statements > > for what users see. > > > > I'm sure there's more than one viewpoint out there, so I'd like to hear > > a couple of them. Is this frequent mode switching good, bad, or > > indifferent? Is there a point at which the mode switching starts to > > seriously degrade performance and reliability? > > > > -Derrick > > > > > > -- > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- ------------------------------------------------- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign against HTML \ / email and proprietary format X attachments. / \ ------------------------------------------------- Have you been used by Microsoft today? Choose your life. Choose freedom. Choose LINUX. -------------------------------------------------