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. -- Richard Quadling Twitter : EE : Zend @RQuadling : e-e.com/M_248814.html : bit.ly/9O8vFY -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php