On 7/13/07, Micky Hulse <micky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hey Richard, thanks for the reply. I appreciate it. :) Richard Lynch wrote: > http://php.net/ Yikes! I guess it was one of those RTFM question/answers! Lol. :D > #2 sounds awfully bogus to me... Yeah... Hmm, now I am starting to wonder where I heard/read that. Maybe it was a co-worker. I am glad I asked here for clarification. > 1 and 3 sure ought to cover it though. Yep yep. Sounds good to me. Good enough reasons to think twice about using short tags. Also, FYI for those interested, a list member mentioned (off-list) that shorthand tags "are considered by many to be deprecated" and have been on the "verge of removal from the PHP language a few times in the past." Interesting stuff. :) Thanks again Richard and all. Cheers, Micky -- Wishlists: <http://snipurl.com/1gqpj> Switch: <http://browsehappy.com/> BCC?: <http://snipurl.com/w6f8> My: <http://del.icio.us/mhulse> -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
To my knowledge (and even a quick peek at http://www.php.net/ini.core), there is no indication that short_open_tags is deprecated, nor that it's "been on the verge of removal" at any point. I don't want to start a flame war, but it sounds like you've been given some bad information. In fact, removing the short_open_tags core directive would not only cause probably more than half of existing scripts to break (that's just an educated guess, of course), but would also completely eradicate the PHP core feature of shorthand output: <?php echo "This is output.\n"; ?> .... versus: <?="This is output.\n"?> Also note that, with shorthand output, the echoed output does not need a semicolon at the end if it's a single line. I generally do it out of habit, but for the purpose of illustration here, I omitted the semicolon. Additionally, a disclaimer should be made in favor of the anti-short_open_tags people, where the three lines can safely coexist on one. -- Daniel P. Brown [office] (570-) 587-7080 Ext. 272 [mobile] (570-) 766-8107 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
