On Apr 14, 2007, at 6:51 PM, Nicolas A. Bérard-Nault wrote:
Maybe I'm missing something here, but why should PHP be compliant
with a
standard that absolutely has nothing to do with the language (c.f.:
XML) ?
Isn't it obvious that a file with the extension .php is NOT an XML
file ? It
seems to me the short tags issue is starting to become a bikeshed
argument...
Again, sorry if I'm missing the point.
Say you want PHP to produce XML output in a template like fashion:
<?xml ...>
<user>
<name><%= $username %></name>
<zip><%= $zip %></zip>
</user>
Now to me personally this looks very neat and allows for code/
presentation separation, in this case presentation being XML output.
You cannot do this with short tags enabled because PHP will throw a
parse error on line one.
So you have two options: enable asp tags and use it as above, or use:
<name><?php echo $username?></name>
syntax.
It comes down to taste, and to my eye the version with asp tags looks
more readable when you use PHP in this way.
Edin
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