Hi Nick
Nick Cooper wrote on 2009-10-28 17:29:
Thank you for the quick replies. I thought method 2 must be faster
because it doesn't have to search for variables in the string.
So what is the advantages then of method 1 over 3, do the curly braces
mean anything?
1) $string = "foo{$bar}";
2) $string = 'foo'.$bar;
3) $string = "foo$bar";
I must admit reading method 1 is easier, but writing method 2 is
quicker, is that the only purpose the curly braces serve?
Yes, you're right about that. 10 years ago I went to a seminar were
Rasmus Lerforf was speaking and asked him exactly that question. The
single qoutes are preferred and are way faster because it doesn´t have
to parse the string, only the glued variables.
Also we discussed that if you´re doing a bunch of HTML code it's
considerably faster to do:
<tr>
<td><?= $data ?></td>
</tr>
Than
print "
\n\t<tr>
\n\t\t<td>$data</td>
\n\t</tr>";
or
print '
<tr>
<td>'.$data.'</td>
</tr>';
I remember benchmark testing it afterwards back then and there was
clearly a difference.
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Kind regards
Kim Emax - masterminds.dk
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