Escaping PHP

[chaneguye]

Are there any drawbacks from escaping PHP? I swear I read somewhere (possibly on HTMLForums) that constantly escaping PHP would negatively effect execution time. So over the past few months I have been trying to escape PHP to output HTML as little as possible. There are some obvious cases where I use a ton of HTML with no need for PHP so I escape PHP. But this has led to my code being ugly with a ton of echo's and escaped quotes. And then when I view source on my HTML to see how that looks it is all screwed with little to no tabbing to differentiate levels.

Does anyone have any knowledge on this?

 

[freeplusac]

It is a technique to prevent PHP from ending your strings too early, or for making sure you have the correct string information returned.

<?PHP

$string = 'John's Car';
print $string;

?>