Discussion on: 5 bad habits to lose in PHP

[Kushal Niroula]

For the fourth one, I rather prefer string interpolation.

echo "Hello {$name}" ;

[Elliot Derhay]

I like string interpolation too whenever I can get away with it.

[Marcus]

String interpolation gets weird if your string contains quotes, though

printf('<a href="%s"></a>',$link);

vs

echo "<a href=\"{$link}\"></a>";

Of course one could write it this way

echo "<a href='{$link}'></a>";

• but for some reasons I don't like single quotes for html attributes :)

At the end and in this case, whatever works best/is the easiest to write and read. sprintf with many vars is a pain to read.

[Jimmy Klein]

String interpolation works to in this case. 👍
I am used to (s)printf when
I want to translate string which contains variables with gettext and also to format float.