On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 3:53 PM, Michael Morris <dmgx.mich...@gmail.com>wrote:
> > PHP_TAGS_NONE is suggested as a possible bonus mode this approach allows > that wouldn't be feasible otherwise. In this mode the engine treats the > whole file as PHP and doesn't allow mode switching. This might allow the > engine to parse the file faster. Importantly it would allow framework > designers to enforce that certain files not have HTML in them - such as a > database class, or a custom child class. Admittedly it doesn't stop > echo'ing the html, but it drives home the point to all but the densest that > perhaps this isn't the place to be printing/echoing. It's use would > encounter the problem of current IDE tools assuming that a PHP file will > always have a starting <?php tag. > > This also would help prevent accidentally putting whitespace before the <?php that can cause problems with header()
