note 116094 deleted from language.basic-syntax.phptags by sobak

Note Submitter: mario ---- A few related notes, partly covered elsewhere in the manual: → Since PHP 5.4 the inline echo <?= ?> short tags are always enabled regardless of the short_open_tag (php.ini) setting. → PHP tags are infrequently also referred to as open/close "tokens" (as per the tokenizers T_OPEN_TAG / _ECHO, and T_CLOSE_TAG naming). → The historic ASP-style <% %> and even more rarely used <script language=PHP></script> tags are to be repealed in PHP7. http://wiki.php.net/rfc/remove_alternative_php_tags There also exists a small tool called "phptags tidier" for consistently rewriting PHP short/long tags. It's suitable to normalize include and template scripts, e.g. employ the always-enabled long <?php ?> tags, and/or relieve whitespace padding before/after PHP tags: phptags --long --whitespace --warn *.php Instead of reliably fixing the common whitespace/BOM issues around tags, it can also just remove all ?> close tags with --unclose --tokenizer as advised afore.