ECHO html markup, or add it up then echo it as one big string (for big tables)

[5kyy8lu3]

I notice alot of people just add to one string all the html markup for a table in their loop, then they just echo that variable to make the table, is this a better way than how I do it?

 

for example, what i do:

 

for (blah, blah blah)
{
	echo '<td>', $somearray, '</td>';
}

 

vs how i see alot of other people do:

 

for (blah, blah, blah)
{
	$html_out .= '<td>' . $somearray . '</td>';
}

echo $html_out;

 

i ask this because my visitor log is pretty indepth and accesses a few tables for IP to country, last visit, browser info, etc and several functions i made, and it's gettin close to 200 rows in the html table now and the page seems like it's loading slower, though it might just be a bad week for my webhost, any input would rock, thanks

 

 

 

[dennismonsewicz]

Personally, I usually echo out each HTML line and indent as you would in HTML to see any errors you may have typed by mistake

[Absorbator]

Your way (just "echo") should be faster. Storing data in a variable takes time too...

 

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