What about:
echo "This is a string and my variablke $x is ".$x."\n";
I think your first would be faster, but on such a miniscule level as to be
irrelevant.
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phill
> There are two ways to get your variables into a string -- concatenation
with
> single-quoted strings, or embedding in evaluated double-quoted strings.
> Which is more expensive to the server?
>
> For example:
>
> <?php
>
> $x = 10;
> echo "This is a string and my variable \$x is $x.\n";
> echo 'This is a string and my variablke $x is '.$x."\n";
>
> ?>
>
> Now, which is more expensive? Is it more expensive to concatenate them, or
> to evaluate the whole string since it would be in double-quotes? I see
lots
> of people do things in double-quotes, but it would seem to me that
> single-quoted strings concatenated with variables would be less expensive
> because you are only evaluating the variables.
>
> --Jason
>
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