At 4:16 PM -0500 1/10/09, Paul M Foster wrote:
And let me present an alternative perspective. Never do something like:
<?php echo 'Hellow world'; ?>
Let Apache (or whatever) interpret HTML as HTML, and don't make it
interpret PHP code as HTML.
Instead, do:
<h1>Hello world</h1>
If you're going to use PHP in the middle of a bunch of HTML, then only
use it where it's needed:
<h1>Hello <?php echo $name; ?></h1>
The contents of the PHP $name variable can't be seen by the HTML, which
is why you need to enclose it in a little PHP "island". Naturally, if
you're going to put PHP code in the middle of a HTML page, make the
extension PHP. Otherwise, Apache will not interpret the PHP code as PHP
(unless you do some messing with .htaccess or whatever). It's just
simplest to call a file something.php if it has PHP in it.
Paul
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Paul M. Foster
Paul:
I agree with you. My example was not well thought out. My point was
not to mix style elements with data. I should have said:
I would consider the following"bad practice":
<?php echo("<h1>$whatever</h1>"); ?>
Whereas, the following I would consider "good practice".
<h1><?php echo("$whatever"); ?></h1>
Thanks for keeping me honest.
Cheers,
tedd
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