On 12 January 2011 14:07, Steve Staples <sstaples@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-01-12 at 13:40 +0000, Richard Quadling wrote:
>> On 12 January 2011 13:20, Steve Staples <sstaples@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > Jim,
>> >
>> > Not to be a smart ass like Danial was (which was brilliantly written
>> > though), Âbut you have your "example" formatted incorrectly. ÂYou are
>> > using commas instead of periods for concatenation, and it would have
>> > thrown an error trying to run your example. :)
>> >
>> > # corrected:
>> > echo "<li><a href=\"index.php?page={$category}\">{$replace}</a></li>";
>> >
>> > Steve Staples.
>>
>> Steve,
>>
>> The commas are not concatenation. They are separators for the echo construct.
>>
>> I don't know the internals well enough, but ...
>>
>> echo $a.$b.$c;
>>
>> vs
>>
>> echo $a, $b, $c;
>>
>> On the surface, the first instance has to create a temporary variable
>> holding the results of the concatenation before passing it to the echo
>> construct.
>>
>> In the second one, the string representations of each variable are
>> added to the output buffer in order with no need to create a temp var
>> first.
>>
>> So, I think for large strings, using commas should be more efficient.
>>
>> Richard.
>>
>
> Well... I have been learned. ÂI had no idea about doing it that way, I
> apologize to you, Jim.
>
> I guess my PHP-fu is not as strong as I had thought?
>
> Thank you Richard for pointing out this to me, ÂI may end up using this
> method from now on. ÂI have just always concatenated everything as a
> force of habit.
>
> Steve Staples.
>
>
I was never taught by nuns.
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