Chris W. Parker wrote:
> Wouter van Vliet <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> on Friday, November 21, 2003 10:55 AM said:
>
>> Point is, which of the inline printing style is preferred by you
>> guyes. I tend to use <?=$Var?> a lot, since it reads easier but get
>> into struggles with myself when I do that multiple times in a row.
>
> Because of this I usually do the following:
>
> echo "<p>here is some text with a $variable in it.<br/>\n"
> ."And this is another like of text with a $variable1 in it.<br/>\n"
> ."And so on...<br/>\n"
> ."And so forth.</p>\n";
>
> I also prefer <?= $variable ?> to <?php echo $variable; ?>
> except that for the sake of cross-system compatibility* I now
> choose to do <?php echo $variable; ?>.
>
>
> Chris.
>
> * What I mean by that is if I give my code to someone else I
> want it to work with as few changes as possible. Some php
> installs don't have <? ?> turned on (short tags?).
>
Well, there is an eye opener. I always thought that the <?=$Var?> printing
style was not influenced by short_open_tag, but now I did a test to be sure
about it and it turned out it does..
<quick test>
1 <?php
2 echo 'ini setting short_open_tag: '.ini_get('short_open_tag');
3 ?>
4
5 Long open tags: <?php print 'OK'; ?>
6 Short open tags <? print 'OK'; ?>
7 Short print style <?='OK'?>
<output short_open_tags="On">
ini setting short_open_tag: 1
Long open tags: OK
Short open tags OK
Short print style OK
</output>
<output short_open_tags="Off">
ini setting short_open_tag:
Long open tags: OK
Short open tags <? print 'OK'; ?>
Short print style <?='OK'?>
</output>
</quick_test>
Thanks!
Wouter
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