Re: Speed

Aha, an ex-ASP programmer! I've heard that the stop and start is faster, but it really doesn't matter with PHP. In ASP its an issue because ASP does a context switch every time from HTML to the VBScript/JScript compiler. PHP doesn't do any context switches so there's no overhead to stop and start. Echo is probably faster as it's shorter :-) Regards, John "Jerry Nelson" <jnelson@datanamics.com> wrote in message news:5.0.2.1.0.20010522124748.00a57ec0@dnmcinc... > I am fairly new to PHP and am right now writing my first complicated > script. There is a lot of HTML in the page and I was wondering which > method is faster. To always be inside the <?php ?> tags or to stop and > start. > Here is a quick example (not necessarily a good one) > <?php > $sql2 = "select ABBREV from STATES"; > $result2 = OCIParse($conn,$sql2); > OCIExecute($result2) or die("It's not possible to query"); > ?> > <select name=STATE > > <?php > while (OCIfetch($result2,1)) { > ?> > <option><?php echo OCIresult($result2,1)?> > <?php } ?> > </SELECT> > > OR > > <?php > $sql2 = "select ABBREV from STATES"; > $result2 = OCIParse($conn,$sql2); > OCIExecute($result2) or die("It's not possible to query"); > echo "<select name=STATE >"; > while (OCIfetch($result2,1)) { > echo "<option>"; > echo OCIresult($result2,1) > } > echo "</SELECT>"; > ?> > > Also which is faster print or echo. > Thanks > > *---------*-----------*----------*---------*---------*---------*--------* > Jerry Nelson > Systems Analyst > Datanamics, Inc. > 973-C Russell Ave > Gaithersburg, MD 20879 > TEL: 301-948-3515 > > > -- > PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-windows-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-windows-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >