Re: [PHP] Couple of beginner questions

At 4:16 PM -0500 1/10/09, Paul M Foster wrote:
And let me present an alternative perspective. Never do something like:

<?php echo 'Hellow world'; ?>

Let Apache (or whatever) interpret HTML as HTML, and don't make it
interpret PHP code as HTML.

Instead, do:

<h1>Hello world</h1>

If you're going to use PHP in the middle of a bunch of HTML, then only
use it where it's needed:

<h1>Hello <?php echo $name; ?></h1>

The contents of the PHP $name variable can't be seen by the HTML, which
is why you need to enclose it in a little PHP "island". Naturally, if
you're going to put PHP code in the middle of a HTML page, make the
extension PHP. Otherwise, Apache will not interpret the PHP code as PHP
(unless you do some messing with .htaccess or whatever). It's just
simplest to call a file something.php if it has PHP in it.

Paul
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Paul M. Foster

Paul:

I agree with you. My example was not well thought out. My point was not to mix style elements with data. I should have said:

I would consider the following"bad practice":

<?php echo("<h1>$whatever</h1>"); ?>

Whereas, the following I would consider "good practice".

<h1><?php echo("$whatever"); ?></h1>

Thanks for keeping me honest.

Cheers,

tedd


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