Re: HTML errors

On 12/01/11 14:13, Richard Quadling wrote:

On 12 January 2011 14:07, Steve Staples<sstaples@mnsi.net> wrote:

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.

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