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Posted by Michael Fesser on 05/30/07 19:18
..oO(L. Berger)
>I am working on an HTML template which has a lot of html tags, with
>PHP data shown in the middle of these tags -- you know, the usual.
>Currently, I have HTML as is, and many many "echo $variable"
>statements mixed in as PHP code.
>
>My question: should I leave it like this, with ECHO statements
>embedded within the tags,
>
>Or
>
>Should I concatenate the HTML within single quotes (single quotes are
>supposed to be faster in PHP than double quotes) and the display data
>as variables, and then ECHO that one concatenated string?
The fastest would be something like
echo 'some text ', $aVar, ' some more text ', $anotherVar;
No double-quoted string, no concatenation, just pure output. But I don't
consider that much of an issue. You should use what seems to be the most
appropriate to you, mainly in order to keep the code readable and
maintainable. For example instead of the code above I would usually use
print "some text $aVar some more text $anotherVar";
or even
printf('some text %s some more text %s',
$aVar,
$anotherVar
);
Definitely slower than the echo statement, but much more flexible and
more readable (at least for me), especially when there are a lot of
variables or statements required in the string.
Micha
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