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Originally Posted by Dentafrice

Well, your preference is pointless.

You're basically telling PHP that you're going to output a string "", but you're actually outputting a variable inside that string, so you're making your program inefficient because it is having to check that string "" for variables ($_SESSION), so you're just putting more work on your program.

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Simple telling PHP you are going to output a variable, you save the time and hassle of having it look through the string for it.

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Well if I'm going to work on a little script I couldn't really care about what PHP has to do.

You should worry about it when it makes you look stupid, and look like a bad coder.

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Originally Posted by Dentafrice

You should worry about it when it makes you look stupid, and look like a bad coder.

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Which I'm not because PHP isn't my main language. It's something I casually use now and then. If I were to be some big time developer, perhaps I'd use proper methods.

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Originally Posted by Excellent2

Which I'm not because PHP isn't my main language. It's something I casually use now and then. If I were to be some big time developer, perhaps I'd use proper methods.

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You should use proper methods when attempting to help someone, otherwise let someone who "use proper methods" help them out ;)

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Originally Posted by Dentafrice

You should use proper methods when attempting to help someone, otherwise let someone who "use proper methods" help them out ;)

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Regardless of using proper methods, I helped him. If he wants to learn the proper procedures then I'll let others help.

Look, You both helped me out loads... so theres no need to argue, Excellent thanks i understand now, and Dentafrice thanks for updating it and helping me learn a bit more on the syntax... You both contributed and helped alot sooo dont argue :P tehe thanks alot though :)