Re: Preferred Syntax

Tedd Sperling <tedd.sperling@gmail.com> wrote: > On Dec 14, 2011, at 7:59 AM, Rick Dwyer wrote: > > > Hello all. > > > > Can someone tell me which of the following is preferred and why? > > > > echo "<a style='text-align:left;size:14;font-weight:bold' > > href='/mypage.php/$page_id'>$page_name</a><br>"; > > > > echo "<a style='text-align:left;size:14;font-weight:bold' > > href='/mypage.php/".$page_id."'>".$page_name."</a><br>"; > > > > When I come across the above code in line 1, I have been changing it to what you see in > > line 2 for no other reason than it delineates out better in BBEdit. Is this just a preference > > choice or is one method better than the other? > > > > --Rick > > Neither. > > My advice, take all the style elements out of the anchor tag. > > echo("<a href='/mypage.php/$page_id'>$page_name</a>"); > > Even the '<br>' can be (perhaps should be) handled by css. I think you may have missed the question. The OP was asking whether: "text $var text" or "text ".$var." text" was preferrable. For me, I tend to use the first unless the second makes things clearer where they need to be. Syntax hilighing can easily be one of those times.