This method has been my personal choice for the past 3-4 yrs in coding, I have not found any problems with it thus far.
But I am gradually switching all my code over to a seperate template style design as where I have all my values in a variable format and then parse a *.html file and str_replace() all the values accordingly. I have found no significant performance difference between <?= **?>, echo "";, print() But I have found a much cleaner method by using the templateing method that I am switching to. To sum it up, if you are concerned about performance, I wouldn't worry too much. But if you are worried about readability, I would stick with the <?= ** ?> method myself. It keeps everything flowing in the script. Jim Lucas ----- Original Message ----- From: "Derrick Fogle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 2:13 PM Subject: [PHP] Frequent Mode Switching > Thoughts on frequent switching in and out of PHP mode: > > <? switch in, do some code > ?>Switch out, static HTML > <? switch in, do more code > ?>Switch out, more static HTML > > I've found that I prefer programming this way, for the most part, > putting most of the heavy PHP programming at the top, and then using > static HTML interspersed mostly with quick <?= $variable ?> statements > for what users see. > > I'm sure there's more than one viewpoint out there, so I'd like to hear > a couple of them. Is this frequent mode switching good, bad, or > indifferent? Is there a point at which the mode switching starts to > seriously degrade performance and reliability? > > -Derrick > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
