RE: [PHP] Re: PHP in HTML code

From: Ford, Mike > From: Ashley Sheridan >> On Tue, 2010-03-16 at 11:16 +0000, Ford, Mike wrote: >> > >> > >> Proof: > >> http://marc.info/?l=php-internals&m=126832992915664&w=2 > >> >> >> That's not really proof of anything, it's just an archived email >> from this list... > > Well, firstly it's an archived email from the *internals* (i.e. > PHP developers) list, not this one. And secondly it's from > someone whom I trust to know what he's talking about. If I > looked, I'm sure I could dig up several similarly definitive > (but less recent) pronouncements from PHP "names", including > Rasmus himself. > > In fact: > http://marc.info/?l=php-internals&m=123969574312781&w=2 Well, that's their prerogative, but I believe they are wrong. Short tags cause more problems than they will ever solve, and should be removed from the language ASAP. I would classify that as a design flaw. In the meantime, since we are upgrading our pages to XHTML, we are replacing the short tags wherever they occur. Bob McConnell