Aha, an ex-ASP programmer!
I've heard that the stop and start is faster, but it really doesn't matter
with PHP. In ASP its an issue because ASP does a context switch every time
from HTML to the VBScript/JScript compiler. PHP doesn't do any context
switches so there's no overhead to stop and start.
Echo is probably faster as it's shorter :-)
Regards, John
"Jerry Nelson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> I am fairly new to PHP and am right now writing my first complicated
> script. There is a lot of HTML in the page and I was wondering which
> method is faster. To always be inside the <?php ?> tags or to stop and
> start.
> Here is a quick example (not necessarily a good one)
> <?php
> $sql2 = "select ABBREV from STATES";
> $result2 = OCIParse($conn,$sql2);
> OCIExecute($result2) or die("It's not possible to query");
> ?>
> <select name=STATE >
> <?php
> while (OCIfetch($result2,1)) {
> ?>
> <option><?php echo OCIresult($result2,1)?>
> <?php } ?>
> </SELECT>
>
> OR
>
> <?php
> $sql2 = "select ABBREV from STATES";
> $result2 = OCIParse($conn,$sql2);
> OCIExecute($result2) or die("It's not possible to query");
> echo "<select name=STATE >";
> while (OCIfetch($result2,1)) {
> echo "<option>";
> echo OCIresult($result2,1)
> }
> echo "</SELECT>";
> ?>
>
> Also which is faster print or echo.
> Thanks
>
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