Re: Closing PHP tag best practice?

What I know its a best practice to leave the closing tag in a script with one php opening tag.Mostly this applies in a script that present a class, I think its not correct to leave closing tags in template kind of script where you have several php tags. Gr Muhsin On 07/24/2011 02:33 PM, Geoff Lane wrote: > Hi All, > > While watching one of Jeffrey Way's CodeIgniter tutorials, I was > gobsmacked when he noted that it was best practice not to have closing > PHP tags as closing tags might introduce whitespace issues. So I tried > syntax checking a few simple pages and, to my surprise, the syntax > checkers accepted the pages even though the closing "?>" was missing. > > However, I suspect that there may be issues with this. For example, > what happens if you include or require something that has no closing > PHP tag? For example, consider two files: > > File: test_inner.php ----------------8<-------------------------- > <?php > echo "This is the inner code\n"; > ---------------------------8<------------------------------------ > > File: test_outer.php ----------------8<-------------------------- > <html><head></head><body> > <?php > include ('test_inner.php'); > echo "This is the outer code\n"; > ?> > </body></html> > ---------------------------8<------------------------------------ > > I thought that there might be an issue with the parser attemting to > parse the closing body and html tags as PHP, so I ran a check on one > of my development machines with the above files and there was no > error. It seems that, on my development machine at least, a PHP code > block can be closed either explicitly (with '?>') or implicitly by the > EOF! However, experience has shown me that what works on one server > might not work on all of them as there are so many configuration > options and so many versions of PHP 'in the wild'. > > So, is Jeffrey correct when he says that omitting the closing PHP tag > is best practice? Also, are there any 'gotchas' to doing this? > > TIA, > -- Extra details: OSS:Gentoo Linux profile:x86 Hardware:msi geforce 8600GT asus p5k-se location:/home/muhsin language(s):C/C++,PHP,SQL,HTML Typo:40WPM url:http://www.mzalendo.net url:http://www.zanbytes.com