2009/10/28 Warren Vail <warren@xxxxxxxxxxxx>: > The curly braces look like something from the smarty template engine. > > Warren Vail Odd. I always thought the curly braces in the Smarty engine looked like something from PHP. :) Torben > -----Original Message----- > From: Kim Madsen [mailto:php.net@xxxxxxx] > Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 10:18 AM > To: Nick Cooper > Cc: Jim Lucas; php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: PHP String convention > > 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. > > -- > Kind regards > Kim Emax - masterminds.dk > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
