Re: echo vs assignment

That's a shortcut that got added after many requests by ASPers for <?= as a shortcut for <?php echo. I don't know if it ever got added to the Docs in enough places to be as widely-used or widely-documented as it should be, but it's in there somewhere, so it's spec... Rasmus still hates it :-) but you get tired of umpteen requests for "something like <%=" every week. It's really not an assignment operator in that context -- Just that = happens to be part of the token <?=, which is its own token meaning "<?php echo" ----- Original Message ----- From: Anthony Martin <Anthony@TRAMS.com> Newsgroups: php.general Sent: Monday, December 04, 2000 3:52 PM Subject: [PHP] echo vs assignment > I have gotten into the habit of using the assignment operator instead of > echo in my HTML blocks. I don't remember where I picked it up, but I think > it's an SSI standard. > > Has anyone run into a problem with it? Example: > > <HTML> > > <?="Hello World"?> > > instead of > > <?echo "Hello World";?> > > --- > > <?=strToUpper('hello world')?> > > instead of > > <?echo strToUpper('hello world');?> > > --- > > <?=foo == true ? 'Foo!' : 'Bar!'?> > > instead of > > <?echo foo == true ? 'Foo!' : 'Bar!';?> > > </HTML> > > > > Anthony > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >