Re: [PHP] Re: PHP in HTML code

2010/3/18 Pete Ford <[email protected]>:
> On 17/03/10 18:59, Tommy Pham wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Rene Veerman<[email protected]>  wrote:
>>>
>>> hmm.. seems easier to me to push a filetree of .php's with<?= through
>>> the str_replace(), than it is to get all the<?= writers to comply
>>> with your wishes, which may not apply to their situation ;-)
>>>
>>> On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 5:14 PM, tedd<[email protected]>  wrote:
>>>>
>>>> At 8:55 PM -0400 3/16/10, Adam Richardson wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> That said, I'm not taking exception with those who don't use the short
>>>>> tag, only with those who say I shouldn't.
>>>>
>>>> Exception or not, it's still your choice and using short tags can cause
>>>> problems.
>>>>
>>>> My view, why create problems when there is a solution? Forcing the issue
>>>> is
>>>> a bit like "I'm going to do it my way regardless!" I've traveled that
>>>> path
>>>> too many times in my life. Sometimes it's easier to take the path most
>>>> traveled.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>>
>>>> ted
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>>
>> http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.basic-syntax.phpmode.php
>>
>> "There are four different pairs of opening and closing tags which can
>> be used in PHP. Two of those,<?php ?>  and<script language="php">
>> </script>, are always available. The other two are short tags and ASP
>> style tags, and can be turned on and off from the php.ini
>> configuration file. As such, while some people find short tags and ASP
>> style tags convenient, they are less portable, and generally not
>> recommended. "
>
> But the implication there is that they are *only* non-portable *because*
> they can be switched off - there's no other strong reason. Before anyone
> jumps in with XML / XHTML arguments again, those issues are fairly rare and
> very easily worked around. My projects tend to use XHTML doctype because it
> makes IE7/8 behave more predictably without a <?xml ?> block, and I always
> use short tags for <?= because the alternative is so ugly! In the rare cases
> where I generate XML from a PHP script, there are workarounds for the <?
> problem.
> I do tend to use <?php for blocks of code - so I guess I'm in the middle
> camp here.
> I also write code to be hosted on dedicated systems that I have full control
> over, so php.ini settings are always in my control (so far...)
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I agree.
And I believe the persons ranting about short open tags are just like
some religious people. It's almost like a war between
Linux/Windows/Mac, IE/FF or ASP/PHP.
Also, people love to recommend things that others recommended before.
It mustn't make a big sense.