Re: [PHP] Couple of beginner questions

On Sun, 2009-01-11 at 09:46 -0500, tedd wrote:
At 1:49 PM +0000 1/11/09, Ashley Sheridan wrote:

Unless it's something like this:

<?php
echo "<h1 class=\"$headerClass\">$whatever</h1>";
?>

Which is unlikely for a header tag, but I know this sort of format gets
used a lot by me and others, especially for setting alternate row styles
on tables (damn browsers and not supporting alternate rows!)

Ash

Ash:

Here's the alterative I would use:

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

Again, please forgive my use of echo().

The point being, wherever you want to insert a variable, then do it,
but leave html out of your code.

My "alternate row styles" solution is this:

http://webbytedd.com/b/color-rows/

Please note that no html is harmed in the making of this presentation. :-)

Cheers,

tedd

I'm not wanting ti nitpick, but what if there were several attributes
you needed to populate from the PHP? I just find it easier on my eyes to
include HTML in the PHP string that's being output, but I can see the
definite merits for echoing out single parts that would only get in the
way of the HTML.


Ash
www.ashleysheridan.co.uk

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