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Posted by Richard Lynch on 03/08/05 18:13
Jochem Maas wrote:
> I sure I'm not the only one on this list that reads php-internals
> after reading the thread entitled:
>
> ""
>
> I'm wondering if anyone here has _ever_ used the <script> tags
> to enclose php code? e.g.:
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> <script language="php">
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> echo "testing 123";
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> </script>
Only in talks/presentations, as far as I can recall...
I think it maybe was useful for some REALLY lame HTML editors -- which may
no longer be on the market, at this point... This is really more of a
"guess" than a "memory".
I can certainly imagine that in those early head days of HTML coding, some
then-popular HTML editor didn't grok the maybe-not-quite-kosher <?php and
<? or even <% tags, and did something "bad" with them. Maybe the HTML spec
allows for *ANY* character, but I could see a lot of folks expecting only
alphanumber, or even only alphabetic, in the HTML syntax, regardless of
the spec.
> or if many were even aware of the possibility?
> IMHO it rather pointless and its should be avoided at all cost,
> but anyway it probably makes someone happy so no harm done :-).
I doubt that it's a whole lot of effort on the part of the PHP parser to
support it, so unless there's a strong reason to deprecate it, leave it
alone. There are much more important things to work on, I should think.
'Course, I'm not the one doing that work, so there ya go.
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