Witch is Faster?

[Monkuar]

Using this

$rowbg = $rowbg == 'ce' ? 'ce bc1' : 'ce';

 

or using this:

 

 $color_one = 'ce bc1'; 
   $color_two = 'ce'; 
   static $i = 0;
   $color = ($i % 2) ? $color_one : $color_two;
   $i++;

 

for Alternating colors?

 

^^ ?

[genericnumber1]

Try profiling it and find out!

 

Either way, I would guess the first would be quicker. But as they say, premature optimization is the root of all evil! Choose whatever is the easiest to read, I have a huge feeling that there will be bigger bottlenecks in your code than either of these.

[rhodesa]

Quicker? You won't see a difference until you put this in a loop that is processing millions of entries. And even then, compared to the other parts of your code, the time it takes to process this is negligible.

 

But, I would go with the first because it uses 1 variable vs 4, and is cleaner code.

 

But then again, I would probably be using Smarty for my templates, which has an alternate method in it, so I wouldn't have this code at all

[Monkuar]

Quicker? You won't see a difference until you put this in a loop that is processing millions of entries. And even then, compared to the other parts of your code, the time it takes to process this is negligible.

 

But, I would go with the first because it uses 1 variable vs 4, and is cleaner code.

 

But then again, I would probably be using Smarty for my templates, which has an alternate method in it, so I wouldn't have this code at all

 

Smarty?

 

Im not trying to be mean ahah sorry

[genericnumber1]

Smarty?

 

Im not trying to be mean ahah sorry

 

http://www.smarty.net/

 

I'm not a big fan, but to each their own (I prefer a different template engine). Smarty's powerful once you learn the syntax.

[rhodesa]

For small projects, don't bother with it. But for any bigger site, I find it very handy. Also, I tend to develop the PHP and someone else does the HTML/CSS...so it REALLY helps with the separation of responsibilities.

[Monkuar]

Smarty?

 

Im not trying to be mean ahah sorry

 

http://www.smarty.net/

 

I'm not a big fan, but to each their own (I prefer a different template engine). Smarty's powerful once you learn the syntax.

 

I'd rather stick with just php, lol

[genericnumber1]

Actually template engines are quite powerful and useful for separation of logic and presentation (as rhod said) in large projects. I tend to stick with the one baked into zend framework, but pretty much any template engines make a managing a large website much easier.

[.josh]

$colors = array('ce bc1','ce');
$colors[$i++ % 2]; 

 

example:

 

$colors = array('ce bc1','ce');
while ($list = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
  echo $colors[$i++ % 2]; 
}