Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 09/27/70 11:52

Rik wrote:
> Jonathan N. Little wrote:
>> Rik wrote:
>>>> $v = htmlentities($data['option']);
>>>> printf("\t<option value=\"%s\">%s</option>\n", $v, $v);
>>> ==
>>> printf("\t<option value=\"%1$s\">%1$s</option>\n",
>>> htmlentities($data['option']));
>> Ok you are using argument swapping to repeat the variable, but doesn't
>> the placeholder require a '\'?
>>
>>
>> printf("\t<option value=\"%1\$s\">%1\$s</option>\n",
>> htmlentities($data['option']));
>
> You're right, I was somewhat hasty (and I normally never double quote HTML
> code, the times I need variables in HTML it's usually a larger block using
> heredoc syntax).
>
> Assigning these kind of temporary variables where they aren't necessary
> (neither for the code nor for the readability) is just a pet peeve of mine
> :-)

You sure that will not cause a second evaluation of htmlentities?

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Jonathan
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