On Wed, 14 Dec 2011 07:59:46 -0500, Rick Dwyer wrote: >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>"; >[...] Just to throw in yet another possibility: echo <<<HTML <a style="text-align:left;size:14;font-weight:bold" href="/mypage.php/$page_id">$page_name</a><br> HTML; I love HEREDOC for slabs of HTML, sometimes SQL, email bodies, etc. because they allow you to drop your variables into the output text without crufting up the formatting with string concatenation, AND they allow you to use double quotes which can be important for HTML attributes that may contain single quotes. So whilst either above option is fine for the specific context, I prefer HEREDOC when there's attributes like href. But what is "preferred" is rather dependent on the "preferrer". -- Ross McKay, Toronto NSW Australia "All we are saying Is give peas a chance" - SeedSavers -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
