Ashley Sheridan wrote:
On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 11:51 -0500, Frank Stanovcak wrote:
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On Sun, 2009-01-11 at 08:08 -0500, tedd wrote:
At 4:16 PM -0500 1/10/09, Paul M Foster wrote:
And let me present an alternative perspective. Never do something like:
<?php echo 'Hellow world'; ?>
Let Apache (or whatever) interpret HTML as HTML, and don't make it
interpret PHP code as HTML.
Instead, do:
<h1>Hello world</h1>
If you're going to use PHP in the middle of a bunch of HTML, then only
use it where it's needed:
<h1>Hello <?php echo $name; ?></h1>
The contents of the PHP $name variable can't be seen by the HTML, which
is why you need to enclose it in a little PHP "island". Naturally, if
you're going to put PHP code in the middle of a HTML page, make the
extension PHP. Otherwise, Apache will not interpret the PHP code as PHP
(unless you do some messing with .htaccess or whatever). It's just
simplest to call a file something.php if it has PHP in it.
Paul
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Paul:
I agree with you. My example was not well thought out. My point was
not to mix style elements with data. I should have said:
I would consider the following"bad practice":
<?php echo("<h1>$whatever</h1>"); ?>
Whereas, the following I would consider "good practice".
<h1><?php echo("$whatever"); ?></h1>
Thanks for keeping me honest.
Cheers,
tedd
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Unless it's something like this:
<?php
echo "<h1 class=\"$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
www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
Hey Ash...Why don't you just use CSS subclassing?
<style type="text/css">
h1.odd {class stuff here}
h1.even {class stuff here}
</style>
then
<h1 class="odd"><?php echo $whatever; ?></h1>
no escaping, and no need to php your css styles. :)
Frank
That's what I do do, but the 'odd' has to come from PHP, as
unfortunately, numerical selectors in CSS aren't supported by (AFAIK)
any browsers at the moment. So for example, if I was coding for
alternate rows in a table, I might do:
for($i=0; $i<$some_limit; $i++)
{
$rowClass = ($i % 2 == 0)?'':'class="alternate"';
print <<<EOP
<tr $rowClass>
<td>...</td>
<td>...</td>
<td>...</td>
</tr>
EOP;
}
As far as such loops go, is this a particular faux pas in regards to the
way it's coded? Go on Tedd ;)
Ash
www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
nice pick-up on the fact you only need to css the alternate row not both
odd and even :p
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