[FX.php List] PHP Question

[Kevin Futter]

On 21/7/06 3:25 AM, "Bob Patin" <bob at patin.com> wrote:

> I don't know why I never thought to use ECHO rather than to move in and out of
> PHP code... !
> 
> This is much more elegant; I'll definitely store this away for future use...
> 
> 
That¹s an interesting comment Bob. I tend to go the other way ­ I try as
hard as I can to separate data processing logic from both structural and
presentational layers. I¹ll put all parsing logic at the top of a page,
above any HTML code, and try to only drop into PHP when I need to print db
data or other logic-based tasks. For example, if I¹m not using PHP to write
any variables into an element on a page, then (unless I¹m using a loop to
write out a table) I won¹t use PHP to do it.

For my money...

<table>
<?php
// code to write out table rows and cells
?>
</table>

...is cleaner, more elegant and easier to read than needlessly getting PHP
to write out HTML elements.

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



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