Re: RFC: source files without opening tag

On Apr 9, 2012, at 6:22 PM, Kris Craig <kris.craig@gmail.com> wrote: If the default is "template mode" and the "<?php" tag is optional (at the > top) in "code" mode there shouldn't be any problems. > > We don't need to change or leave out the tag entirely. > > Is there a problem with people being able to choose "template mode" or > "code mode" as the default in the php.ini file if "template mode" is the > default if not specified? > I think so, yes. A config option that causes massive BC breakage doesn't become ok simply because it defaults to current behavior. I just can't envision any situation in which having that option switched on would not cause problems, unless that server is *only* running scripts that assume code mode. However, what if you want to use two scripts, but one assumes code and the other assumes HTML? The ini_set() function would be pretty much useless given the circumstances. Instead, I would have an optional <?phpp tag at the top of the file. This would be in addition to the file extension/SAPI approach and the require keyword approach. In other words, perhaps an "all of the above" strategy is what's neeeded here. But either way, I just don't think an INI setting would be feasible. --Kris Ini_set wouldn't work for this anyway. It would have to be changeable only in php.ini. Are you concerned a shared host us going to force code mode? Because regardless of the default mode you can still do something like: include "/foo/bar.php", INC_TEMPLATE; If the php.ini option really spooks you, perhaps it can be specified by the web server as an environmental variable. In my case all requests (besides /public/* - purely static files) are feed directly to index.php. I'd like to specify the mode in my Nginx config for that index.php file. Luke