While it's true that '.' concatenates and ',' is a list separator, The comma is actually more appropriate in this instance since you are just outputting each piece. It saves the overhead of concatenation before output. Thank you, Micah Gersten onShore Networks Internal Developer http://www.onshore.com Nathan Rixham wrote: > > 6: " vs ' > when you use " php will parse the enclosed string for variables, when > you use ' it won't; so ' leads for faster code, and also encourages > you to code strongly by closing strings and concatenating variables. > Further it allows you to use valid html " around attributes rather > than the invalid ' > > 7: , vs . > there is no vs :) to concatenate we use . (period) not , (comma) > > so for 6 & 7.. > echo '<td>' . $i['servername'] . '</td>'; > > I'm going to stop there, hope it helps a little bit; and I won't go > any further as half the fun is learning; so you finding out how to > save time on queries and write your own db handlers etc is not my > domain I reckons > > Regards > > nathan > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php