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    <blockquote> <p>Are there other methods for outputting an HTML table that are faster than my WHILE loop?</p> </blockquote> <p>Potentially yes. PHP is a templating language. Use it as such, don't fight it! Native templating is likely to be faster than laboriously sticking strings together manually — and IMO more readable.</p> <pre><code>&lt;table&gt; &lt;?php foreach($results as $result) { ?&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;?php echo htmlspecialchars($result[0]); ?&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;?php echo htmlspecialchars($result[1]); ?&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;?php } ?&gt; &lt;/table&gt; </code></pre> <p>(Note the use of <code>htmlspecialchars</code>. If you don't use this function <em>every time</em> you insert plain text into HTML, your code has HTML-injection flaws, leading to potential cross-site-scripting vulnerabilities. You can define a function with a short name like <code>h</code> to do <code>echo htmlspecialchars</code> to avoid some typing, but you <em>must</em> HTML-encode your strings.)</p> <p>However: whilst this is prettier and more secure, it is unlikely to be significantly faster in practice. Your client-side rendering slowness is almost certainly going to be caused more by:</p> <ol> <li><p>network transmission speeds for a lot of table data. You can improve this by deploying with <code>zlib.output_compression</code>, <code>mod_deflate</code> or other compressing filter for your web server, if you have not already.</p></li> <li><p>rendering speeds for large tables. You can improve this by setting the CSS style <code>table-layout: fixed</code> on your <code>&lt;table&gt;</code> element and adding <code>&lt;col&gt;</code> elements with explicit <code>width</code> styles for the columns you want to have a fixed width.</p></li> </ol>
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    1. CO`you must HTML-encode your strings` This doesn't apply if the MySQL columns are `datetime` or `int`, for instance, and would unnecessarily _increase_ load times.
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    2. CO@rybo111: Your markup layer should not need to know where a string variable comes from and what limitations there are on the characters in it. Omitting escaping in places you think it is 'safe' will come back to bite you when you change the application to make that assumption no longer valid. Templates that *always* HTML-escape when writing text to HTML are easier to maintain, reason about, and detect newly-added security holes in. HTML-escaping is inexpensive; except for cases where you are explicitly dealing with already-encoded markup, there is no good reason not to do it.
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