Should I Do This.....

liquidchild

Should i mix html code and php code like this:

<?php
session_start();
session_destroy();

include_once( "../../system/system.config.php" );

echo $DOCTYPE;

<body>

</body>
<html>

or should i have it all in php and use echo '<html>' ......does it matter?

jpmoriarty

you're the programmer - it's completely up to you. Just bare in mind that it has to be relatively easy for someone else to read it to see what's going on, but it doesnt make the slightest difference otherwise

PHPdev

Like jpmoriarty said you are the programmer it is up to you. However I did read an article (on PHPbuilder) recently about optimizing your pages. Sorry I looked but could not find it. It talked about where to put your HTML vs PHP, and the peformance of each...

PHPdev

ahundiak

To me, mixing html with code stuff like php sql queries gets to be too confusing. On the other hand, echo statements tend to be a pain and make reading the html difficult.

So I Ilke to have the php code run and collect and process all the page data and store it into a couple of arrays.

Then I include in the html files which contains small bits of php to echo out selected data from the collection arrays.

cdxrevvved

and I guess Im the opposite.. occasionally I'll mix the two, but otherwise, I prefer to use echo or print to output all the html...