Hmm, I was expecting that. ;)
Looking back, when you said that this code
> <?
> echo("<A HREF='$my_URLhome'>Go home</A>");
> ?>
would obviously create a trailing slash problem, I should have just said
that it's true IF you code it that way. I should have just said that there's
an ALTERNATIVE way of coding that wouldn't create that problem--that way,
this thread wouldn't even be this long.
As I have already mentioned, I agree that this is shorter
> echo("<A HREF='$my_URL/home'>Go home</A>");
but I'd still write this way
echo '<a href="'. $my_URL .'/home">Go home</a>';
since, at least for me, this is easier to read. Besides, for consistency, at
my workplace we use double quotes for the (html) values.
- E
On Friday, October 11, 2002 4:10 PM
Bogdan Stancescu wrote:
> If you really need to get picky, then I shall... well, point out the
> obvious:
>
> echo "<a href='$theURL/'>Go to some folder</a>";
>
> And since we got into this, there are some servers where you don't have
> control over http config, so you shouldn't want to link to directories
> at all - you'd want to specify the exact file to link to, as in
>
> echo "<a href='$theURL/index.php'>Go to some folder</a>";
>
> Bogdan
>
> @ Edwin wrote:
> > Well, I agree about what you said
> >
> >
> >>IMHO, the second comes more natural to write, is easier to understand at
> >>a glance, is less prone to errors and, well, it's shorter!
> >
> >
> > but remember the topic is about whether the trailing slash would create
a
> > problem or not.
> >
> > I think you're aware that there are some servers are not configured to
> > understand that
> >
> > http://www.domain.com/somefolder
> >
> > is equal to http://www.domain.com/somefolder/ . So, NOT having the
trailing
> > slash might even create some problems.
> >
> > So, it's a matter of opinion (and use) whether adding a trailing slash
would
> > create a problem or not. So imagine how this code will work:
> >
> > echo "<a href='$theURL'>Go to some folder</a>";
> >
> > - E
> >
> > On Friday, October 11, 2002 2:28 PM
> > Bogdan Stancescu wrote:
> >
> >>Ok, then I honestly don't understand why anyone would rather write this
> >>
> >>echo "<a href='" . $myURL . "home'>Go home</a>";
> >>
> >>instead of this
> >>
> >>echo "<a href='$myURL/home'>Go home</a>";
> >>
> >>IMHO, the second comes more natural to write, is easier to understand at
> >>a glance, is less prone to errors and, well, it's shorter!
> >>
> >>Bogdan
> >>
> >>@ Edwin wrote:
> >>
> >>>Not exactly. Single quotes are fine. I missed the fact that the single
> >>>quotes here
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>>echo("<A HREF='$my_URLhome'>Go home</A>");
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>will be included in the source--sorry about that.
> >>>
> >>>Well, then, to rewrite the code earlier,
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>echo '<a href="' . $my_URL . 'home">Go home</a>';
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>this way:
> >>>
> >>> echo "<a href='" . $myURL . "home'>Go home</a>";
> >>>
> >>>that would still not give you the "trailing slash" problem. In other
> >
> > words,
> >
> >>>it's just a matter of how you write the code... ;)
> >>>
> >>>- E
> >>>
> >>>On Friday, October 11, 2002 1:06 AM
> >>>Bogdan Stancescu wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>I'm not sure exactly what you're trying to point out - does XHTML
> >>>>require double quotes?
> >>>>
> >>>>Bogdan
> >>>>
> >>>>@ Edwin wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>Just a thought...
> >>>>>
> >>>>>If you're going to write an XHTML compatible code, you wouldn't
really
> >>>
> >>>have
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>>this problem -->
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> echo("<A HREF='$my_URLhome'>Go home</A>");
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>since you'll probably write something like this:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> echo '<a href="' . $my_URL . 'home">Go home</a>'; >
> >>>>>Of course, I didn't mean that you can't do that with HTML...
> >>>
> >>>[snip]
> >>
> >>
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