> > echo "<input type='text' name='hello' size='20' value='$value'>";
>
> that isn't html anymore, though.
>
> even though IE and NS may be forgiving, <input type='text'
> isn't valid.
>
> " it is.
Er, actually ... you can use any quotes you like, you just have to be
consistent and remember to close the one you open.
> > Actually, it makes it less useable for me.
>
> how?
It's harder to spot the code when the <?= shortcut is used.
> and what about your html production people, who needs to make
> changes to it?
We've all agreed on this standard. Doesn't mean it's *the* standard
(any more than yours is ;)), but the fact remains that it works for
us.
It also doesn't stop us going on about why we chose to do it in that
way. :)
> > I assemble *all* the page content into a single string variable,
> > and echo it out as the last thing the script does. This way I'm
> > free to play with HTTP headers right up to that time.
>
> agh!
>
> well, ok - but I suggest that you use functions instead, and call your
html
> printing functions at the end of your script. or better, build simple
> components, and glue them together to make an application
> that consists of files that do logical operations, and files that
> contain markup.
Er, yeah ... thats what I just said we do :)
This *does* scale quite nicely. We're running 4 or 5 completely different
sites now off the same function codebase.
> But I certainly can't integrate code into a production
> process that looks like this:
>
[snip - pukeworthy ;)]
> get one of your friends that knows html but not PHP to look
> at the above, then this:
[snip - also pukeworthy ;)]
> and see what they have to say.
Well ... it also depends on your team members. Our team has a distinct
programming bent to it (and then there's me, who hates programming but
loved PHP scripting, go figure! :)). A team with more of a HTML edge
will probably prefer your way.
For an availability check on www.inww.com, we tend to do something
like this:
<?
$check = checkgTLD($domainname);
if ($check[result] == "success")
{
if ($check[availability] == "available")
{
$result = "<<some big complicated HTML chunk for available
domains>>";
}
else
{
$result = "<<some big complicated HTML chunk for UNavailable
domains>>";
}
}
else
{
$result = "<<some big complicated HTML for when everything goes
pearshaped>>";
}
// At this point we pull in the sidebar content for the page, too, then:
$output = generatePageLayout($result);
include("$DocRoot/subpagestart.php3");
echo $output;
include("$DocRoot/subpagestop.php3");
?>
There's advantages and disadvantages to both our ways, really. It's
not worth an in-depth discussion because I think I've just sent everyone
on the list to sleep as-is. But our way works for us just as well as
your way works for you :)
Jason
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