Tedd Sperling <tedd.sperling@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Dec 14, 2011, at 7:59 AM, Rick Dwyer wrote:
>
> > Hello all.
> >
> > Can someone tell me which of the following is preferred and why?
> >
> > echo "<a style='text-align:left;size:14;font-weight:bold' href='/mypage.php/$page_id'>$page_name</a><br>";
> >
> > echo "<a style='text-align:left;size:14;font-weight:bold' href='/mypage.php/".$page_id."'>".$page_name."</a><br>";
> >
> > When I come across the above code in line 1, I have been changing it to what you see in line 2 for no other reason than it delineates out better in BBEdit. Is this just a preference choice or is one method better than the other?
> >
> > --Rick
>
> Neither.
>
> My advice, take all the style elements out of the anchor tag.
>
> echo("<a href='/mypage.php/$page_id'>$page_name</a>");
>
> Even the '<br>' can be (perhaps should be) handled by css.
I think you may have missed the question. The OP was asking whether:
"text $var text"
or
"text ".$var." text"
was preferrable.
For me, I tend to use the first unless the second makes things clearer
where they need to be. Syntax hilighing can easily be one of those
times.
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