From: tcjohans at riseup dot net
Operating system: Windows Vista
PHP version: 5.2.10
PHP Bug Type: Feature/Change Request
Bug description: Neater insertion of PHP variables in HTML
Description:
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Hello,
Here is an idea of how to facilitate the interaction between PHP and HTML
code. Much of this interaction just has to do with the insertion of the
value of a previously defined PHP variable into the HTML document.
Currently, this is done through a rather roundabout coding:
<?php echo $somevariable; ?>
This snippet contains 28 characters, i.e. 16 more than the 12 of the
variable name. Could it be put neater and more economical?
I think so. I would propose a shorter format:
A simple prefix that simply just tells PHP that what immediately follows
is a PHP variable whose value should be inserted into the HTML document,
but that in all other regards this is just HTML code.
There should also be a closing suffix (but this is perhaps mostly to give
an aesthetically balanced coding.)
E.g. a prefix like "<$php:" and a suffix like ">" (or whatever), so that
one could just write something like
<$php:somevariable>
in the HTML code in order to have the value of $somevariable to be
inserted there.
The 28 characters of the usual way has now become just 19 characters. And
the whole snippet is much more concise and clearer: it gives a neater
appearance within the surrounding HTML code, which facilitates for the
developer/designer.
This would simply be so much more economic and neater than the usual way.
The idea can be extended:
For instance, in order to call a function somewhere in a piece of HTML
code, one might perhaps do something like this:
<?php:somefunction($var1, $var2)>
Thomas
Reproduce code:
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<?php
function goodbye($a) {
echo "Goodbye " . $a . "!";
}
$greeting = "Hello World!";
?>
This is some HTML text.<br>
Followed by:<br>
<$php:greeting><br>
<$php:goodbye("world")><br>
End
Expected result:
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This is some HTML text.
Followed by:
Hello World!
Goodbye world!
End
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