using ' or "

[brown2005]

when i am writing my php should i use:

 

echo'  ';

 

or

 

echo"  ";

 

and why?

[monk.e.boy]

echo '';

 

it's quicker and less confusing.

 

monk.e.boy

[OOP]

Hi there,

If you don't want the PHP interpreter to do anything for example replacing the variables with their values then use single quote otherwise choose double quote. Also, if you use double quote then some characters will have special meaning such as \t.

[Jenk]

<?php

$var = 'foo';

echo '$var'; // outputs "$var"
echo "$var"; //outputs "foo"

?>

[monk.e.boy]

<?php

$var = 'foo';

echo '$var'; // outputs "$var"
echo "$var"; //outputs "foo"

?>

 

<?php

$var = 'foo';

echo '$var'; // outputs "$var"
echo '$var: '.$var; // <-- I like this one best
echo "$var"; //outputs "foo"

?>

 

Line 3 is ok for short lines of text, but for massive SQL statements with tons of variables in it it gets hard to read.

 

I think line 2 is faster than line 3.

 

monk.e.boy