Re: Any difference between these 2 forms of syntax?

Richard Davey wrote:

"Austin Marshall" <amars@pdq.net> wrote in message news:3CDC6E17.8020801@pdq.net...

It all depends on what you use as a key... you just follow the normal string standards. If you want a variable evaluated within the key, then you must use "s if you purely use text then you just need 's. For example $x=$foo["status $y"]; vs. $x=$foo['status'];

No variables included in the keys, so it looks like it's ' all the way - excellent, thank you. I wonder if it matters from an overhead point of view, is PHP doing more work than it ought to using " instead of ' because it's expecting variables? Cheers, Rich -- Fatal Design http://www.fatal-design.com Atari / DarkBASIC / Coding / Since 1995

that's a possibility, but i'd suspect the overhead comes from when variables are actually inserted/replaced and/or characters escaped. I doubt there would be much of a difference between "status" and 'status' Nor would there be much of a diffrence between 'status '.$foo.' blah'; and "status $foo blah"; I'd be interested to see if there were much a difference performance-wise though.