Re: Style questions: variable in echo, preparing sql queries

> 1) echo "PartID is $PartID"; > seems to work fine. Is there a reason that I see others use: > echo "PartID is " . $PartID; If $PartID is not a simple variable, but an array or object, the embedded used to not work. Now, it works but not for 2-D (and higher) arrays, and I dunno about objects... For echo, you can also use , instead of . since echo takes unlimited args. > 2) When querying a db, I see users who do something like: > $sql = "select foo from bar"; > $results = mysql_query("$sql") > Is there a reason not to just put the SQL code directly in the function: > $results=mysql_query("select foo from bar") ? Yes. When (not if, when) I screw up the SQL, I want to be able to easily insert: echo $sql, "<BR>\n"; before the mysql_query() line. And then comment it out after I fix my broken SQL.