On Thu, Feb 25, 2021, at 2:55 AM, Rowan Tommins wrote:
> On 24/02/2021 04:26, Mike Schinkel wrote:
> > Repeating code similar to that from the message sent by David Rodrigues you can see that
> > eliminating the ": null" is less noisy:
> >
> > <div class="user <?php user ? 'online' : null
> > ?>">...</div>
> > <div class="user <?php user ? 'online'
> > ?>">...</div>
>
>
> That's an interesting use case. Of course, the logical default there is
> actually '' (empty string) rather than null, since "echo null;"
> doesn't
> actually make much sense, but null works under current type juggling rules.
>
> Then again, perhaps this is a good example of why PHP *isn't* the best
> choice any more if you want a templating language. Twig, for instance,
> has exactly this facility
> [https://twig.symfony.com/doc/3.x/templates.html#other-operators]:
Given the security implications of plain PHP templating (you're on your own for absolutely all
filtering and escaping, good luck), I'd say this isn't even a controversial statement.
PHP may have begun life as a templating language for the 90s, but in the 2020s it's a fairly
mediocre option at best compared to what else is readily available.
--Larry Garfield