RE: [PHP] PHP String convention

The curly braces look like something from the smarty template engine. Warren Vail -----Original Message----- From: Kim Madsen [mailto:php.net@emax.dk] Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 10:18 AM To: Nick Cooper Cc: Jim Lucas; php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] 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 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php