Re: [PHP] Quotes vs. Single Quote

2010-08-06 Thread Richard Quadling
On 6 August 2010 16:18, Bill Guion wrote: > At 8:31 AM -0400 08/06/10, tedd wrote: > >> Cheers, >> >> tedd >> >> PS: Considering that this is Friday. I have a grammar question for the >> group. I said above: >> >> "neither CSS, PHP, or any web language exist in a vacuum." >> >> Is the word "neithe

Re: [PHP] Quotes vs. Single Quote

2010-08-06 Thread Bill Guion
At 8:31 AM -0400 08/06/10, tedd wrote: Cheers, tedd PS: Considering that this is Friday. I have a grammar question for the group. I said above: "neither CSS, PHP, or any web language exist in a vacuum." Is the word "neither" appropriate in this sentence? Normally, two items can be compare

Re: [PHP] Quotes vs. Single Quote

2010-08-06 Thread tedd
At 9:09 AM -0400 8/6/10, Andrew Ballard wrote: On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 8:31 AM, tedd wrote: While it may not be obvious, the statement: > is flawed (IMO). The "best" way to handle this is to define a class (or id) for the table in a css file and then set the border (i.e., styling) to

Re: [PHP] Quotes vs. Single Quote

2010-08-06 Thread Andrew Ballard
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 8:31 AM, tedd wrote: > While it may not be obvious, the statement: > > > > is flawed (IMO). > > The "best" way to handle this is to define a class (or id) for the table in > a css file and then set the border (i.e., styling) to whatever you want. For > example, your HTML wo

Re: [PHP] Quotes vs. Single Quote

2010-08-06 Thread Richard Quadling
On 6 August 2010 13:31, tedd wrote: >I have a grammar question for the > group. I said above: > > "neither CSS, PHP, or any web language exist in a vacuum." > > Is the word "neither" appropriate in this sentence? > > Normally, two items can be compared by "neither"  or "nor", but what about > more

Re: [PHP] Quotes vs. Single Quote

2010-08-06 Thread Floyd Resler
On Aug 6, 2010, at 8:08 AM, tedd wrote: > At 10:10 PM -0400 8/5/10, Rick Dwyer wrote: >> 2nd question, in the 3 [2] lines below: >> >> $checkstat = "select field from table where fieldid = $field_id"; >> $result1 = @mysql_query($checkstat,$connection) or die("Couldn't execute >> query"); >> >>

Re: [PHP] Quotes vs. Single Quote

2010-08-06 Thread tedd
At 9:05 PM -0700 8/5/10, Michael Shadle wrote: Leave the single quotes for parameters, indexes, code, not attributes - $.02 Agreed. "Render unto Caesar (HTML) the things that are Caesar's and unto God (PHP -- Lord forgive me) the things that are God's." In other words, when writing code in

Re: [PHP] Quotes vs. Single Quote

2010-08-06 Thread tedd
At 11:00 PM -0400 8/5/10, Paul M Foster wrote: On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 10:10:26PM -0400, Rick Dwyer wrote: > echo " And elsewhere on the page it follows: > echo ' Not acceptable and sloppy. Be consistent in your coding style. In general, HTML attributes should be surrounded by do

Re: [PHP] Quotes vs. Single Quote

2010-08-06 Thread tedd
At 10:10 PM -0400 8/5/10, Rick Dwyer wrote: 2nd question, in the 3 [2] lines below: $checkstat = "select field from table where fieldid = $field_id"; $result1 = @mysql_query($checkstat,$connection) or die("Couldn't execute query"); If I were to recode in the latter style, should they not look

Re: [PHP] Quotes vs. Single Quote

2010-08-06 Thread Richard Quadling
On 6 August 2010 07:34, Peter Lind wrote: > On 6 August 2010 04:10, Rick Dwyer wrote: >> Hi List. >> I've mentioned before that I am both just beginning to learn PHP AND I have >> inherited a number of pages that I'm trying to clean up the w3c validation >> on. >> >> Something that confuses me

Re: [PHP] Quotes vs. Single Quote

2010-08-05 Thread Peter Lind
On 6 August 2010 04:10, Rick Dwyer wrote: > Hi List. > I've mentioned before that I am both just beginning to learn PHP AND I have > inherited a number of pages that I'm trying to clean up the w3c validation on. > > Something that confuses me is how the code on the page is written where in > one

Re: [PHP] Quotes vs. Single Quote

2010-08-05 Thread Michael Shadle
On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 8:51 PM, Adam Richardson wrote: > Tim Bray, who knows a little bit about XML dialects (tongue in cheek), > appears to default to the single quote as his delimiter of choice: > http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/ Side note, looks like his stuff is auto-generated by something, so

Re: [PHP] Quotes vs. Single Quote

2010-08-05 Thread Michael Shadle
On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 8:51 PM, Adam Richardson wrote: > I would suggest that saying is "the wrong way" is a > rather strong assessment.  Whether you're talking about SGML (the > grandparent), XML (the parent), or XHTML, the use of a single quote is > perfectly valid, and has served a purpose si

Re: [PHP] Quotes vs. Single Quote

2010-08-05 Thread Adam Richardson
On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 10:53 PM, Rick Dwyer wrote: > > On Aug 5, 2010, at 10:43 PM, Michael Shadle wrote: > > > > > For HTML, -always- use double quotes. > > > > is the right way. > > is the wrong way. > > > > I'd go into more explanation but there simply doesn't need to be one. > I would sugg

Re: [PHP] Quotes vs. Single Quote

2010-08-05 Thread Paul M Foster
On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 10:10:26PM -0400, Rick Dwyer wrote: > Hi List. > I've mentioned before that I am both just beginning to learn PHP AND I have > inherited a number of pages that I'm trying to clean up the w3c validation on. > > Something that confuses me is how the code on the page is writ

Re: [PHP] Quotes vs. Single Quote

2010-08-05 Thread Rick Dwyer
On Aug 5, 2010, at 10:43 PM, Michael Shadle wrote: > On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 7:10 PM, Rick Dwyer wrote: >> Hi List. >> I've mentioned before that I am both just beginning to learn PHP AND I have >> inherited a number of pages that I'm trying to clean up the w3c validation >> on. >> >> Somethin

Re: [PHP] Quotes vs. Single Quote

2010-08-05 Thread Michael Shadle
On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 7:10 PM, Rick Dwyer wrote: > Hi List. > I've mentioned before that I am both just beginning to learn PHP AND I have > inherited a number of pages that I'm trying to clean up the w3c validation on. > > Something that confuses me is how the code on the page is written where i

Re: [PHP] Quotes vs. Single Quote

2010-08-05 Thread Josh Kehn
On Aug 5, 2010, at 10:10 PM, Rick Dwyer wrote: > Hi List. > I've mentioned before that I am both just beginning to learn PHP AND I have > inherited a number of pages that I'm trying to clean up the w3c validation on. > > Something that confuses me is how the code on the page is written where in