RE: [PHP] Anyone have a tool/script to convert <? to <?php (but not <?=) [deprecated]

As far as I'm aware, <? Has been deprecated and so having code that relies upon it could require us to stay at certain PHP version levels that support it. Or has this idea been abandoned? I remember lots of flurry about it, but as I recall it was over the confusion where people thought that <?= was going away when it was only to be <? (which most people agreed was acceptable to be rid of) http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.basic-syntax.phptags.php http://asoke.wordpress.com/2012/01/06/short-open-tags-will-be-removed-in-php -6/ > -----Original Message----- > From: Joshua Kehn [mailto:josh.kehn@gmail.com] > Sent: Friday, February 14, 2014 11:21 AM > To: Aziz Saleh > Cc: Daevid Vincent; php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: Re: [PHP] Anyone have a tool/script to convert <? to <?php (but not > <?=) > > +1... > > You could not be so picky about inherited code and just change them when > you come across them. > > --jk > > On 14 Feb 2014, at 10:53, Aziz Saleh wrote: > > > What I posted (and all the others) would work, replacing all instances > > of > > "<? " (notice the space) with "<?php " should work, it will > > leave all > > existing <?= and <?php alone (since having a space after ? and before > > =/php would produce a parser error. > > > > Not sure why you are saying that spaces are irrelevant thou. > > > > > > On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 1:34 PM, Daevid Vincent <daevid@daevid.com> > > wrote: > > > >> *sigh* > >> > >> <?=$foo?> is perfectly valid so is <?=$foo;?> or any combination WITH > >> SPACES OR NOT. > >> If this were trivial, I wouldn't have asked the list. I've been > >> coding PHP > >> since 1996. ;-) > >> > >> So if you have <? you have to make sure it doesn't have a '=' after > >> the > >> '?' to convert to '<?php' > >> > >> Spaces are irrelevant and can NOT be relied upon as a unique feature. > >> > >>> -----Original Message----- > >>> From: Daevid Vincent [mailto:daevid@daevid.com] > >>> Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2014 2:57 PM > >>> To: php-general@lists.php.net > >>> Subject: RE: [PHP] Anyone have a tool/script to convert <? to <?php > >>> (but > >> not > >>> <?=) > >>> > >>> Thanks guys for the replies so far, however, if it were a simple > >>> search > >> and > >>> replace I wouldn't have to ask ;-) > >>> > >>> The trick is that "<?=" is valid and legal and I want to keep those. > >>> I > >> only > >>> want to change if they are specifically "<?" > >>> > >>> Maybe there is some regex guru out there that knows the magic > >> incantation. > >>> > >>> Related, for extra credit it drives me bonkers to see this: > >>> > >>> Hello <?= $username; ?> > >>> > >>> Note the end semicolon on the variable. I'd want to strip all those > >>> off > >> too, > >>> but that is also not a trivial task if you think about it as it can > >>> only > >> be > >>> removed if proceeded with <?= > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> -- > >>> PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > >>> To unsubscribe, visit: > >>> http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >> > >> > >> -- > >> PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > >> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >> > >>