Question

As you know, a good programmer is a lazy programmer, but I’m just lazy. My question is this: Is there a simpler way to print out an element of an array (from a MySQL query) in a PHP echo statement?

I usually do this:

echo "string start " . $array['element'] . " string end";

It works FINE, I’d just like a shorter way of printing it out, because echo sees the “[‘element’]” bit of the variable as a string. I could use list() to get all the elements, but that’s not what I’m after.

So, are there any answers out there?

Thanks for reading,

James

Answer 1

As I heavily dislike interpolating variables in strings I prefer using echo with several arguments:

echo 'string start ', $array['element'], ' string end';

Apart from this being faster then string concatenation (.) it deals better with echoing results of expressions, because , has the lowest of all precedences.