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I had tested out by printing (repeated times): 1) echo '<br>'.$k.': hallo '.$string.', dit is het<br>'."\n"; 2) echo "<br>$k: hallo $string, dit is het<br>"."\n"; 3) ?><br><?=$k?>: hallo <?=$string?>, dit is het<br><?="\n"?><? $k=1; $string='test'; I found: The fastest way to print was 3) Second came 1) (no much difference) and the slowest way 2) (about 2 times slower). I haven't tested printf("<tr><td> Best regards, Bas Jobsen Op zondag 28 juli 2002 09:56, schreef Yves Vrancken: > Greetings, > > I am new to PHP and trying to implement some PHP and MySQL on my website. > My website has a lot of tables and inside some of those tables, I want to > display information that is drawn out of the MySQL database using PHP. I > was wondering what goes faster: > > (A). Building the whole page normally up in HTML, doing the usual <table> > <td> and so forth, and then inside the <td> calling up the PHP in order to > display the information. For example: <td> <?php ...... ?> </td> > > (B). Doing everything in the PHP document, also the 'building' of the > tables, and then including the PHP script in the main page. For example > using printf("<tr><td> and so forth. > > Thanks, > > Yves Vrancken -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php