From: tcjohans at riseup dot net Operating system: Windows Vista PHP version: 5.3.0 PHP Bug Type: Feature/Change Request Bug description: HTML macros
Description: ------------ I propose the ability to create "macros" that can be used in the HTML (outside of the PHP start and end tags, <?php and ?>). This will facilitate using PHP in systems oriented to web site builders who lack knowledge of PHP, but need to use certain interactive features. The below example creates a macro USERNAME which can be inserted into HTML to reflect the current site user's name. However, macros could perhaps also be used to create forms, e.g. by defining a macro "FORM". Also, if macros could be defined so as to take arguments, they would be even more powerful. Reproduce code: --------------- <?php global $USERNAME; $USERNAME = "John"; macro USERNAME { global $USERNAME; echo $USERNAME; } ?> Hello!<br> Your name is USERNAME.<br> Bye! Expected result: ---------------- Hello! Your name is John. Bye! -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=49380&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.2): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49380&r=trysnapshot52 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.3): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49380&r=trysnapshot53 Try a snapshot (PHP 6.0): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49380&r=trysnapshot60 Fixed in SVN: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49380&r=fixed Fixed in SVN and need be documented: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49380&r=needdocs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49380&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49380&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49380&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49380&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49380&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49380&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49380&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49380&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49380&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49380&r=php4 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49380&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49380&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49380&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49380&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49380&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49380&r=mysqlcfg