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Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 09/23/06 14:44
Tim Roberts wrote:
> Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> wrote:
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>>Tim Roberts wrote:
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>>>I've never understood the aversion to the <?= construct in PHP. One of the
>>>appeals of PHP is that I can write full PHP modules for the processing, and
>>>HTML with <?= escapes for the presentation side. It's like having a
>>>built-in templating engine.
>>>
>>>If I have to write everything out in PHP code, I might as well use a more
>>>sopisticated language.
>>
>>Because it requires short tags to be enabled, which can conflict with
>>other languages. For instance, xml uses <?xml to indicate an xml block.
>> And with short tags on, this would be detected as the start of a PHP
>>statement.
>>
>>It's why most systems run with short tags disabled.
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>
> Duh, yes, I ranted about the wrong thing. I see that even my own server is
> configured with short tags turned off.
>
> I intended to rant about the ASP-style tags ( <%= ) which are, I believe,
> usually enabled. But, somehow, the argument loses some of its impact when
> its made a second time...
Actually, I think ASP-style tags are generally disabled also. At least
they are on my servers and most of the shared hosts I've used.
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