Re: PHP tags - any reasons to close ?>

On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 8:32 AM, Martin Zvarík <mzvarik@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > I have seen some projects where people start with opening tag <?php but they > DON'T close it with ?> > This is especially the case of CONFIG.php files... > > 1) What's the reason of that? > > 2) What if you would not close any 100% PHP files? > > 3) What's the reason of making an empty space after ?> > I've also seen this in some projects. > > > Thanks for ideas, > Martin > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > If you can avoid closing the php block then do it. There are too many horrible editors and people who don't know what they're doing to even give yourself this headache. I can't count the number of times that my scripts have stopped working when I have output buffering turned off because someone else thought it'd be funny (not really) to put lots of extra line returns and spaces at the end of one of my files.