Array to html table

[djr33]

Eight spaces per level?

No, tabs.

<td onclick='alert(\"Hello!  How\\'re you?\");'>

The slash would escape the other slash--

<td onclick='alert(\"Hello!  How\\\'re you?\");'>

Personally, I find using dots to be just fine.
echo 'something'.$var.'something';

[Twey]

No, tabs.

Ah, vB converted them to eight spaces each.

The slash would escape the other slash--

It was meant to (that was the double-quoted one, the single quote didn't need to be escaped for PHP).

Personally, I find using dots to be just fine.
echo 'something'.$var.'something';

But it's still ugly (as seen in the single-quoted example) and mixes presentation with logic, which is A Bad Thing.

[djr33]

I think it makes perfect sense.

echo $var1.'text1'.$var2.'text2';

It's not very complex logic, certainly. Could be very overwhelming if you had lots of operations in there, but just a single variable seems reasonable.

In fact, it's less to figure out than breaking out of PHP, I'd say.


As for the slash, ah, yes. But... it isn't needed, then. You either have one or three, as the two will cancel each other out, rendering the effect null.

[Twey]

Again, yes, for a little data on a single line (and I've done it: see the <?php echo ... ?> bit?). However, you're probably storing HTML (output/presentation data) in the logic section of the program if you find yourself doing this (or vice versa, if you have a long echo statement in the middle of a chunk of HTML).

In fact, it's less to figure out than breaking out of PHP, I'd say.

Again, a template system would be preferable.

As for the slash, ah, yes. But... it isn't needed, then. You either have one or three, as the two will cancel each other out, rendering the effect null.

No. A single backslash escapes the character after it, although PHP will usually just render the slash if the next character doesn't make any sense when escaped. You seem to be misunderstanding the code a little here: let's break it down a little.

• In our PHP code, we have two backslashes and an apostrophe: \\'
• When this is parsed by PHP, the first backslash escapes the second, resulting in a single literal backslash, so it becomes \'
• The single backslash then escapes the apostrophe for Javascript, so the final character is just a single apostrophe, '.

And, it just goes to prove my point if even someone experienced with PHP can still get confused over what's escaping what

[djr33]

Haha. Hmmm... I was thinking about it backwards.
However, you wouldn't need to escape the first slash in the first place there. That was my main point.
Then I got it in my head that the escaping would hurt.

[Twey]

However, you wouldn't need to escape the first slash in the first place there. That was my main point.

Yes you would: just having \' will result in a literal apostrophe being sent to Javascript, with no backslash, and thus it would break.

/EDIT: Actually, no, it's not necessary, at least in PHP5. However, that makes it a special case (one of the guesses I mentioned above) and so even less predictable and more confusing.

[djr33]

"a\"a", 'a\'a', 'a"a', and "a'a" are correct from my experience.
"a\'a" will output \', like 'a\"a'.

It's been my impression that escaping only applies when a certain character has a use in that type of output (1. single quote, 2. double quote, 3. heredoc)

1. just \' is needed, and \\ when you don't want to escape the ', like \\'.
2. \t, \n, \[othercharacters], \", \$, and, again, \\.
3. only \$ and \{, i'd assume. Never really played with it.

So, if you had \' in single quotes, it wouldn't escape it as there is no point in escaping that ' for php. (For javascript, yes, but not within the php parsing).

\\ escapes escaping, not a literal backslash. So it would only have an effect if it were escaping escaping, if the next character were to be parsed as something special aside from the \.

In fact, it seems like it would be very important to check this, as javascript would receive \\', and escape it itself, though that doesn't seem to be an issue. Odd.

[Twey]

Yes. But, that's inconsistent behaviour (as demonstrated by the fact that it took you two paragraphs to explain it ).

[djr33]

Did you notice my edit? I just updated the post to make more sense. Plus, something went wrong with the first post and cut off a bit.

[Twey]

I think you're trying to say that \\ isn't a literal backslash. If you are, you're wrong