Server Processing Question

Dysan

Does the server need to do more processing if html is included inside php tags?....

<html>
<head>
<title></title>
</head>

<body>

<?php
echo '<table border="1">';
echo '<tr>';
echo     '<th>Firstname</th>';
echo     '<th>Lastname</th>';
echo '</tr>';

echo '<tr>';
echo     '<td>Firstname</td>';
echo     '<td>Lastname</td>';
echo '</tr>';
echo '</table>';
?>

</body>
</html>

....than if PHP tags are included inside html?

<html>
<head>
<title></title>
</head>

<body>
<table border="1">
<tr>
    <th>Firstname</th>
    <th>Lastname</th>
</tr>

<tr>
    <td><?php echo "Firstname" ?></td>
    <td><?php echo "Lastname" ?></td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

NogDog

Probably, but not enough that I'll likely ever worry about it in preference to using whichever method makes my source code easier to maintain.

Dysan

Does the server need to do more processing if html is included inside php tags?....

<html>
<head>
<title></title>
</head>

<body>

<?php
echo '<table border="1">';
echo '<tr>';
echo     '<th>Firstname</th>';
echo     '<th>Lastname</th>';
echo '</tr>';

echo '<tr>';
echo     '<td>Firstname</td>';
echo     '<td>Lastname</td>';
echo '</tr>';
echo '</table>';
?>

</body>
</html>

....than if PHP tags are included inside html?

<html>
<head>
<title></title>
</head>

<body>
<table border="1">
<tr>
    <th>Firstname</th>
    <th>Lastname</th>
</tr>

<tr>
    <td><?php echo "Firstname" ?></td>
    <td><?php echo "Lastname" ?></td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

NogDog

I've merged your two threads together. Please refrain from opening multiple threads on the same subject.

Also, instead of asking for opinions on which takes more processing, why not create a test script to measure the difference and generate some empirical evidence rather than asking for possibly subjective opinions? Or here's a crazy idea: try doing a seach on this forum and on the web for tests and measurements others have already done on this subject.

Dysan

My Apologizes, I tried to add the poll to my other question, but some how it posted copies of the same question.

Cheers for that.

Dysan

How do I create a test script?

dougal85

maybe...

take the start time
do a task (maybe do it multiple times in a loop to make it easier to see)
take the finish time
work out how long its taken

repeat with different methods and see how they compare.

Piranha

Why make it a poll? Either people know for sure, then they will post that. Or they think they know, and they will post that. Or they don't know and won't post at all.

Making a poll only serves the purpose of drawing attention. And it is defenetley not something that could be subjective, and need a poll.

bradgrafelman

As NogDog said, the difference is going to be negligible - so much to the point that I'm willing to bet that you can't accurately measure it from within the script (as has been suggested).

Regardless of whether you have the HTML in an echo() statement or whether you have it outside the PHP tags, PHP still has to process the entire file and look for PHP code, so it's going to go over the HTML one way or the other. I doubt a call to echo() is going to be noticeably slower than simply moving the HTML outside of the PHP tags.

In the end, it's pretty much up to you - which version would you rather code?