Re: dropping asp_tags in HEAD

This sounds handy. At least it's possible to use inside XML documents and are easy to use as <?=... The topic discussion is about ASP tags. IMHO, they are useless and just contribute to programmers write non-standards code. They should be dropped. On the other hand, I usually don't like short tags because of XML compliant code. I have them disabled in all environments I develop. But I still believe that a quick way to write content, without messing XML documents is a great feature. So, if you plan to support something like this, I think it's a nice addiction to PHP, as long as it do not stay in the short tags scope. Personally I use a "e" function to do the task. So... I write this: <?php e("Something"); ?> that is shorter thans echo. But <?echo is quickier and simpler than my approach. =) Best regards, On 4/14/07, Marcus Boerger <helly@php.net> wrote:

Hello Guilherme, "<?=" is also not confirm toxml spec. What we could do is "<?echo". best regards marcus Saturday, April 14, 2007, 6:01:37 PM, you wrote: If you plan to go far and remove the <? tags, so I suggest to include a <?php=$something?> into PHP. Best regards, On 4/14/07, Stut <stuttle@gmail.com> wrote:

Bart de Boer wrote:

I think ASP tags should go too... Simply because it's not standards compliant and I think it's good if people are forced to make nice standards compliant documents... I'd even go so far as to favor dropping short tags too... <? echo "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" ?>\n"; ?> What a mess!...

I agree, but I do like the <?= tag. Personally I would like to see short tags dropped but retain support for <?= as it makes templates a lot easier to read, i.e. <?=$var?> against <?php print $var; ?>. -Stut

Best regards, Marcus

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