"Jesse Phillips" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > On Sunday, 29 January 2012 at 23:25:36 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: >> The whole industry's moved over keeping server-side code out of the HTML > > So the whole industry has moved away from php?
I wish! No, it's moved away from using PHP in an ASP-classic-style. Ie, scattering a bunch of <?php ... ?> throughout an HTML document. > Sure templating is used so mixing php and html is as common, but if I'm > not mistaken <? is still ?> used a lot, I don't know how to use PHP > without it. > Typically now, a PHP file will start with "<?php" to turn on "PHP-mode", and then it'll just leave PHP-mode on for the rest of the file. It won't even be closed with "?>" - this ensures no stray whitespace is printed, which can screw things up (for instance, if you're expecting that HTTP headers are not to have been sent yet.)
