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.
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