Re: Use <?= instead of <%=

can people give me opinions as to why <?= is so bad? me = love : <?= :) _a -- Alex Black, Head Monkey enigma@turingstudio.com The Turing Studio, Inc. http://www.turingstudio.com vox+510.666.0074 fax+510.666.0093 Saul Zaentz Film Center 2600 Tenth St Suite 433 Berkeley, CA 94710-2522 > From: philip@cornado.com (Philip Olson) > Newsgroups: php.general > Date: 13 Jan 2001 12:18:08 -0800 > Subject: Re: [PHP] Use <?= instead of <%= > > My understanding is : > > 1. <?= is essentially php4+ specific > 2. Will not work if short_tags_open setting is off (in php.ini) because of > the fact that <? is a short tag. > > Regarding its relation to the ASP counterpart, it is not directly related > to <%= as that is an ASP tag which refers to the asp_tags setting which if > on, <%= will work, if not on, it will not. Information and references to > this can be found here : > > http://www.php.net/manual/language.basic-syntax.php > http://www.php.net/manual/en/configuration.php#ini.asp-tags > > http://www.php.net/manual/en/configuration.php#ini.short-open-tag > > I've personally never tried asp tags. Earlier within this thread , the > following php internals were posted by Jim Winstead : > > > http://cvs.php.net/viewcvs.cgi/php3/language-scanner.lex.diff?r1=1.3&r2=1.4 > > http://cvs.php.net/viewcvs.cgi/php3/language-scanner.lex.diff?r1=1.6&r2=1.7 > > All in all, if others will be playing with your scripts, don't use asp > style as usually this is usually turned off. Use of <?= is mildly > dangerous (and debated, my view is 'bad') to use given the reasons above. > > > Philip Olson > http://www.cornado.com/ > > On 13 Jan 2001, Arcady Genkin wrote: > >> I have noticed that <?= works just as well as <%=. Since this is not >> in documentation, how safe is it to use it? >> >> Many thanks, >> -- >> Arcady Genkin >> Don't read everything you believe. >> >> -- >> 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 >> > > > > > -- > 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 >