Re: Couple of beginner questions

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Ashley Sheridan wrote:
On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 11:51 -0500, Frank Stanovcak wrote:
"Ashley Sheridan" <> wrote in message news:1231681793.3527.2.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
On Sun, 2009-01-11 at 08:08 -0500, tedd wrote:
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:

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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Unless it's something like this:

<?php
echo "<h1 class=\"$headerClass\">$whatever</h1>";
?>

Which is unlikely for a header tag, but I know this sort of format gets
used a lot by me and others, especially for setting alternate row styles
on tables (damn browsers and not supporting alternate rows!)


Ash
www.ashleysheridan.co.uk

Hey Ash...Why don't you just use CSS subclassing?

<style type="text/css">
    h1.odd {class stuff here}
    h1.even {class stuff here}
</style>

then

<h1 class="odd"><?php echo $whatever; ?></h1>

no escaping, and no need to php your css styles.  :)

Frank


That's what I do do, but the 'odd' has to come from PHP, as
unfortunately, numerical selectors in CSS aren't supported by (AFAIK)
any browsers at the moment. So for example, if I was coding for
alternate rows in a table, I might do:


for($i=0; $i<$some_limit; $i++)
{
    $rowClass = ($i % 2 == 0)?'':'class="alternate"';
    print <<<EOP
    <tr $rowClass>
        <td>...</td>
        <td>...</td>
        <td>...</td>
    </tr>
EOP;
}

As far as such loops go, is this a particular faux pas in regards to the
way it's coded? Go on Tedd ;)


Ash
www.ashleysheridan.co.uk


nice pick-up on the fact you only need to css the alternate row not both odd and even :p

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