can people give me opinions as to why <?= is so bad?
me = love : <?=
:)
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> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Philip Olson)
> Newsgroups: php.general
> Date: 13 Jan 2001 12:18:08 -0800
> Subject: Re: [PHP] Use <?= instead of <%=
>
> My understanding is :
>
> 1. <?= is essentially php4+ specific
> 2. Will not work if short_tags_open setting is off (in php.ini) because of
> the fact that <? is a short tag.
>
> Regarding its relation to the ASP counterpart, it is not directly related
> to <%= as that is an ASP tag which refers to the asp_tags setting which if
> on, <%= will work, if not on, it will not. Information and references to
> this can be found here :
>
> http://www.php.net/manual/language.basic-syntax.php
> http://www.php.net/manual/en/configuration.php#ini.asp-tags
> http://www.php.net/manual/en/configuration.php#ini.short-open-tag
>
> I've personally never tried asp tags. Earlier within this thread , the
> following php internals were posted by Jim Winstead :
>
> http://cvs.php.net/viewcvs.cgi/php3/language-scanner.lex.diff?r1=1.3&r2=1.4
> http://cvs.php.net/viewcvs.cgi/php3/language-scanner.lex.diff?r1=1.6&r2=1.7
>
> All in all, if others will be playing with your scripts, don't use asp
> style as usually this is usually turned off. Use of <?= is mildly
> dangerous (and debated, my view is 'bad') to use given the reasons above.
>
>
> Philip Olson
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> On 13 Jan 2001, Arcady Genkin wrote:
>
>> I have noticed that <?= works just as well as <%=. Since this is not
>> in documentation, how safe is it to use it?
>>
>> Many thanks,
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