[FX.php List] Embed php into HTML or vice versa?

[Kevin Futter]

On 1/9/06 10:06 AM, "Steve Hannah" <shannah at sfu.ca> wrote:

> Hi Jonathan,
> 
> One tip for making HTML-in-PHP a little easier to work with is:
> 
> instead of
> echo "<td>".$value['StuList'][0]."</td>";
> 
> do
> 
> echo "<td>{$value['StuList'][0]}</td>";
> 
> That way you don't have to worry about forgetting a pesky
> concatenation operator.
> You can only do this inside double quotes, not single quotes, but it
> works for just about any valid PHP expression.
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Steve
> 

I'd actually handle it like this:

<td><?php echo $value['StuList'][0]; ?><td>

This way, the HTML is HTML, the PHP is PHP. No need to contatenate, or worry
about escaping quotes or other characters. This will work inside a foreach
loop as you write out the data too. As I've said in earlier posts, doing it
this way isn't always practical, but it's cleaner and more in the spirit of
separating the two.

-- 
Kevin Futter
Webmaster, St. Bernard's College
http://www.sbc.melb.catholic.edu.au/



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