[thelist] PHP show first 10 words of MySQL field

[Paul Bennett]

Austin Harris wrote:

>I have now got it working, and very simple it is to;
>
>$rest = substr("$myrow[text]", 0, 180);
>      echo("$rest");
>
may I make a PHP programming suggestion?
Using variables insided double quotes is making the PHP engine do more 
work than it needs to, as it needs to scan the string before processing 
it to see if there are any variables inside to parse.
Also, it makes it more difficult to see where your variables are when 
inside the string, as visually they look like a part of the 
double-quoted string.

It is good practice to get into the habit of doing something like:

echo 'here is some text with a '.$variable.' in the middle';

less processor work, and easier to debug IMHO

just my 2cents worth


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