[KLUG Members] PHP & HTML

[bill]

I've found PHP so fast that most recommended speed improvements are only 
mythological.  I tried the single quote method for a while but found 
that too often I needed to change a string to a variable and the line 
wouldn't work.

I use double quotes almost all the time for the same reason I use PHP 
almost all the time, easier scanning, maximum flexibility.

By far the worst line to scan is a line that mixes both types of quotes.

echo( '<p>This is your name:' . $firstname . " " . $lastname . "</p>\n");

is harder to read than

echo "<p>This is your name: $firstname $lastname</p>\n";

kind regards,

bill


Richard Harding wrote:

> I work around this by using a single quote to encase the html. It does 
> two things for me. First, PHP looks in every double quote string for 
> variables that it needs to replace. This takes time to read every 
> string. PHP does not perform this same find/replace on single quoted 
> strings. It reduces some overhead. Secondly, it solves the problem of 
> having to escape the quotes.
> 
> So a line like:
> echo( "This is your name: $name" );
> 
> becomes
> echo( 'This is your name:' . $name );
> 
> I find it a bit cleaner and it has the speed benefit.
> 
> Rick
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