RE: [PHP] Preferred Syntax

> -----Original Message----- > From: Tamara Temple [mailto:tamouse.lists@tamaratemple.com] > Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2011 1:40 PM > To: Tedd Sperling > Cc: Rick Dwyer; PHP-General > Subject: Re: [PHP] 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. > > > -- The key thing to remember here is that this is a preference and not a performance thing.