Doc #66097 [Csd]: short tags should no longer be discouraged

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=66097&edit=1 ID: 66097 Updated by: salathe@php.net Reported by: postmaster at greg0ire dot fr Summary: short tags should no longer be discouraged Status: Closed Type: Documentation Problem Package: Documentation problem PHP Version: Irrelevant Assigned To: krakjoe Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: Just to be clear, the use of the "short_open_tag" INI option continues to be discouraged for the same reasons as always. As of PHP 5.4.0, the shorthand echo tag (for want of a better name) "<?=" is always enabled and is considered "okay" to use. In short, the documentation sections that were quoted in the bug report are correct; our discouragement of the use of the "short_open_tag" option and tag continues. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2013-11-17 08:57:35] krakjoe@php.net This bug has been fixed in the documentation's XML sources. Since the online and downloadable versions of the documentation need some time to get updated, we would like to ask you to be a bit patient. Thank you for the report, and for helping us make our documentation better. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2013-11-17 08:57:28] krakjoe@php.net Automatic comment from SVN on behalf of krakjoe Revision: http://svn.php.net/viewvc/?view=revision&amp;revision=332148 Log: fix #66097 update information on short tags ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2013-11-14 17:34:42] postmaster at greg0ire dot fr Description: ------------ From this page : http://php.net/manual/en/language.basic-syntax.phptags.php > PHP also allows for short tags <? and ?> (which are discouraged because they are only > available if enabled with short_open_tag php.ini configuration file directive, or if PHP was > configured with the --enable-short-tags option. From this page : http://www.php.net/manual/en/ini.core.php#ini.short-open-tag > This directive also affected the shorthand <?= before PHP 5.4.0, which is identical to <? > echo. Use of this shortcut required short_open_tag to be on. Since PHP 5.4.0, <?= is always > available. This probably means short tags should no longer be discouraged (the first page should be modified) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=66097&edit=1