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[Marielle Lange]

Hi David,

I am one of the culprits :-).

I prefer PhP for the web, mostly because I find everything I need  
available for free. Also because it is easier to generate web content  
on the fly. Simple things like "and here come some text with  
$aVariable" or 'here is some "quoted text"'. I find the need to write  
strings like "here is some" && quote && "quoted text" && quote  
causing management problems. That's true that it would be very easy  
to write a function webify("and here come some text with $aVariable")  
but "here is some" & quoted("quoted text") doesn't really do it. That  
flexibility in the use of ' and " is a great php feature. Also, you  
can do on the fly image manipulation with php (GD library).

How do you deal with these?

Marielle