Re: HTML errors

On Wed, 2011-01-12 at 13:40 +0000, Richard Quadling wrote: > On 12 January 2011 13:20, Steve Staples <sstaples@mnsi.net> wrote: > > Jim, > > > > Not to be a smart ass like Danial was (which was brilliantly written > > though), but you have your "example" formatted incorrectly. You are > > using commas instead of periods for concatenation, and it would have > > thrown an error trying to run your example. :) > > > > # corrected: > > echo "<li><a > > href=\"index.php?page={$category}\">{$replace}</a></li>"; > > > > Steve Staples. > > Steve, > > The commas are not concatenation. They are separators for the echo construct. > > I don't know the internals well enough, but ... > > echo $a.$b.$c; > > vs > > echo $a, $b, $c; > > On the surface, the first instance has to create a temporary variable > holding the results of the concatenation before passing it to the echo > construct. > > In the second one, the string representations of each variable are > added to the output buffer in order with no need to create a temp var > first. > > So, I think for large strings, using commas should be more efficient. > > Richard. > Well... I have been learned. I had no idea about doing it that way, I apologize to you, Jim. I guess my PHP-fu is not as strong as I had thought? Thank you Richard for pointing out this to me, I may end up using this method from now on. I have just always concatenated everything as a force of habit. Steve Staples.