title: Single Quoted String Over Multiple Lines
body: <p>I am working through this PHP &amp; MySQL book and I have run into something quite different than what I am used to when it comes to echoing multiple lines of a single quoted string. </p>
  
  <p>The example given is this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>    echo '&lt;table align="center" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" width="75%"&gt;
          &lt;tr&gt;
            &lt;td align="left"&gt;&lt;b&gt;This&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
            &lt;td align="left"&gt;&lt;b&gt;That&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
            &lt;td align="left"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Then&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
            &lt;td align="left"&gt;&lt;b&gt;When&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
            &lt;td align="left"&gt;&lt;b&gt;What&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
          &lt;/tr&gt;';
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Obviously I could break out of PHP and use HTML, but this isn't always an option. And when I don't have that option I would usually break up my string for easier reading as such: </p>
  
  <pre><code>    echo '&lt;table align="center" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" width="75%"&gt;' . 
        '&lt;tr&gt;'
          '&lt;td align="left"&gt;&lt;b&gt;This&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;' . 
          '&lt;td align="left"&gt;&lt;b&gt;That&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;' . 
          '&lt;td align="left"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Then&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;' . 
          '&lt;td align="left"&gt;&lt;b&gt;When&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;' . 
          '&lt;td align="left"&gt;&lt;b&gt;What&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;' . 
        '&lt;/tr&gt;';
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The author of this book is well respected in the php community, and the book comes highly recommended and is reviewed well... So my question is this:</p>
  
  <p>Is There anything wrong with his method and should this be practiced?</p>