My personal test for how to do it is how much is being echoed. Since many HTML tags require quotes, which have to be escaped in PHP, I prefer to close PHP and go back into HTML. This avoids the inevitable bugs when I forget to escape the quote. If, however, I have something short I will just echo it with PHP. There is one performance factor to consider, it's best to reduce opening and closing PHP since each time you open it there is another call to the server (I think - please correct me if I'm wrong!) which could in theory slow down your page loading, but I'm not sure how much this really matters. Anyone out there know anything about this? -Lisi At 01:30 PM 10/22/02 -0400, Chris Payne wrote: >Hi there everyone, > >This isn't urgent i'm just curious :-) If I want to use HTML code in my >PHP, I usually close the PHP with ?> do the HTML command with <?=$code?> if >I need to output PHP then open PHP again with <? if I need to write alot of >PHP. > >However, i've noticed alot of people use echo to output HTML instead of this >other method, which method is correct and why? I just want to understand if >I am doing it a bad way or if I should learn to adopt echo's for everything? > >Thanks, just curious so no hurry for a reply :-) > >Regards > >Chris Payne > > >-- >PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
