Re: PHP String convention

Hi Nick Nick Cooper wrote on 2009-10-28 17:29:

Thank you for the quick replies. I thought method 2 must be faster because it doesn't have to search for variables in the string. So what is the advantages then of method 1 over 3, do the curly braces mean anything? 1) $string = "foo{$bar}"; 2) $string = 'foo'.$bar; 3) $string = "foo$bar"; I must admit reading method 1 is easier, but writing method 2 is quicker, is that the only purpose the curly braces serve?

Yes, you're right about that. 10 years ago I went to a seminar were Rasmus Lerforf was speaking and asked him exactly that question. The single qoutes are preferred and are way faster because it doesn´t have to parse the string, only the glued variables. Also we discussed that if you´re doing a bunch of HTML code it's considerably faster to do: <tr> <td><?= $data ?></td> </tr> Than print " \n\t<tr> \n\t\t<td>$data</td> \n\t</tr>"; or print ' <tr> <td>'.$data.'</td> </tr>'; I remember benchmark testing it afterwards back then and there was clearly a difference. -- Kind regards Kim Emax - masterminds.dk