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[Matthew Terenzio]

On Apr 26, 2004, at 1:11 PM, David Mintz wrote:

>
> One convenience of echo (over print) in PHP is that you can use commas 
> and
> echo as many things as you like -- like the Perl's print. Feel free to
> feel confused if you like.
>
> echo "Huh?", $object->method(), "... whatever.";

what's the advantage of that over

print "Huh?".$object->method()."... whatever.";




>
> On Mon, 26 Apr 2004, John Lacey wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Adam Maccabee Trachtenberg wrote:
>>> On Mon, 26 Apr 2004, Jeff Siegel wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Some of these books have great ideas but make life quite confusing 
>>>> for
>>>> the newcomer. Some books use $HTTP_POST_VARS and others use $_POST 
>>>> in
>>>> their code. (See note 1 at
>>>> http://phundamentals.nyphp.org/PH_bookrecommendations.php). It 
>>>> depends
>>>> when they were written. And, as you found out, some assume
>>>> register_globals has been turned on.
>>>
>>>
>>> FWIW, "PHP Cookbook" assumes register_globals is Off and always
>>> superglobals like $_POST over the $HTTP_POST_VARS equivalent.
>>
>> The other thing that causes unnecessary hiccups to newcomers is
>> the mixed use of "echo" and "print".  It may be a small matter
>> to experienced folks, but my rule of thumb on this would be "use
>> echo in all cases -- use print only if the code calls for it".
>>
>> Without getting into the "echo-is-slightly-faster-than-print"
>> discussion, the word "echo" makes more sense to me in terms of
>> "echoing to a screen/display/browser".
>>
>> John
>>
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