Re: Use <?= instead of <%=

> can people give me opinions as to why <?= is so bad? a. PHP4 specific b. Many do not know what it is / what it does c. Will not work when short_tags are disabled d. Does not follow PEAR standards (ed. guess) e. Looks funny / weird / out of place (opinion) Those are my personal reasons. Philip -- Philip Olson http://www.cornado.com/ On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Alex Black wrote: > 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 > > > > > -- > 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 >