Posted by Michael Fesser on 11/09/06 16:16

..oO(M)

>So in that case - PHP engine scans the whole page of text, acting only on
>code it finds between the php start / end tags?

Yep.

>I guess then I am wondering whether it is more efficient for the PHP engine
>to start / stop it's processing of php code multiple times or whether it is
>more efficient to output ECHO statements between the if conditions?

Do you really care about some CPU cycles? It's like optimizing string
output with single quotes instead of double quotes, but still using a
bubble sort algo. If you get performance problems, you should run a
profiler to see where your script wastes time. I'm sure it won't be the
'echo' part. The bottlenecks are usually somewhere else.

I prefer your first version, simply because the code is more readable
and easier to maintain.

Micha

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