Another nice way would be sprintf. So your string really is just a string
and nothing more.
I don't know how it would affect performance, but just for the eye I find
it much simpler.
echo sprintf("<a style='text-align:left;size:**14;font-weight:bold'
href='/mypage.php/%d'>%s</a><br>", $page_id, $page_name);
2011/12/15 Robert Cummings <robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> On 11-12-15 02:50 AM, Ross McKay wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 14 Dec 2011 07:59:46 -0500, Rick Dwyer wrote:
>>
>> Can someone tell me which of the following is preferred and why?
>>>
>>> echo "<a style='text-align:left;size:**14;font-weight:bold' href='/
>>> mypage.php/$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".
>>
>
> Heredoc and Nowdoc are nice but I hate the way they muck up my indentation
> aesthetics. As such when I use them I use as minimalist a terminator as
> possible:
>
> <?php
>
> echo <<<_
> <a href="foo.html">Blah blah blah</a>
> _;
>
> ?>
>
>
> Cheers,
> Rob.
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